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Gathered Beneath the Storm: Wallace Stevens Nature and Community: Wallace Stevens Nature and Community - Hardcover

Quinn, Justin

 
9781900621663: Gathered Beneath the Storm: Wallace Stevens Nature and Community: Wallace Stevens Nature and Community
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1900621665 ISBN 13: 9781900621663
Publisher: University College Dublin Press, 2002

Synopsis

Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) has been acknowledged by writers as diverse as Harold Bloom, Adrienne Rich and R.S. Thomas as one of the central poets of the 20th century. Justin Quinn offers a fundamental reassessment of Stevens's work and the connections it makes between nature, community and art. He engages fully with the recent wave of historicist criticism, and displays the shortcomings of this approach, not only for a reading of Stevens, but also for literature in general. Quinn asks in his introduction "why shouldn't there be a criticism which attends to the societal contexts of poetry without reneging on responsibilities to poetry as a discourse distinct from politics and ideology, one with its own special rhetorical funds and resources, which can nevertheless allow it to comment on the political aspects of our lives in special ways?" His book responds to that requirement and is a valuable contribution to the critical debate on Wallace Stevens's poetry.

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Review

"the whole thesis is made exciting and suitably concise." Books Ireland March 2002

Synopsis

Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) has been acknowledged by writers as diverse as Harold Bloom, Adrienne Rich and R.S. Thomas as one of the central poets of the 20th century. Justin Quinn offers a fundamental reassessment of Stevens's work and the connections it makes between nature, community and art. He engages fully with the recent wave of historicist criticism, and displays the shortcomings of this approach, not only for a reading of Stevens, but also for literature in general. Quinn asks in his introduction "why shouldn't there be a criticism which attends to the societal contexts of poetry without reneging on responsibilities to poetry as a discourse distinct from politics and ideology, one with its own special rhetorical funds and resources, which can nevertheless allow it to comment on the political aspects of our lives in special ways?" His book responds to that requirement and is a valuable contribution to the critical debate on Wallace Stevens's poetry.

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Publisher
University College Dublin Press
Publication date
2002
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1900621665
ISBN 13 
9781900621663
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
168