On extended wings : Wallace Stevens' longer poems

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On extended wings : Wallace Stevens' longer poems

by Helen Hennessy Vendler

Harvard University Press, 1969

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Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 317-334)

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Though Wallace Stevens' shorter poems are perhaps his best known, his longer poems, Helen Vendler suggests in this book, deserve equal fame and equal consideration. Stevens' central theme-the worth of the imagination-remained with him all his life, and Mrs. Vendler therefore proposes that his development as a poet can best be seen, not in description-which must be repetitive-of the abstract bases of his work, but rather in a view of his changing styles. The author presents here a chronological account of fourteen longer poems that span a thirty-year period, showing, through Stevens' experiments in genre, diction, syntax, voice, imagery, and meter, the inventive variety of Stevens's work in long forms, and providing at the same time a coherent reading of these difficult poems. She concludes, "Stevens was engaged in constant experimentation all his life in an attempt to find the appropriate vehicle for his expansive consciousness; he found it in his later long poems, which surpass in value the rest of his work."

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* Introduction: The Two Poetries I. The Pensive Man: The Pensive Style II. Fugal Requiems The Comedian as the Letter C, Sunday Morning, Le Monocle de Mon Oncle III. The Sausage Maker Like Decorations in a Nigger Cemetery and Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird IV. The Volcano Apostrophe, The Sea Behold Owl's Clover V. A Duct with the Undertaker The Man with the Blue Guitar VI. Abecedarium of Finesoldier Examination of the Hero in a Time of War VII. The Amassing Harmony Notes toward a Supreme Fiction VIII. The Metaphysical Changes Esthetique du Mal and Description without Place IX. Douceurs, Tristesses Credences of Sunnner and The Auroras of Autumn X. The Total Leaflessness An Ordinary Evening in New Haven XI. Naked Alpha: Epilogue * Notes

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