Mind of Winter: Wallace Stevens, Meditation, and Literature
- ISBN-10
- 0822976552
- ISBN-13
- 9780822976554
- Series
- Mind of Winter
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 356
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1989-02-15
- Publisher
- University of Pittsburgh Pre
- Author
- William W. Bevis
Description
Bevis addresses the most puzzling and least studied aspect of Wallace Stevens’ poetry: detachment. Stevens’ detachment, often associated by readers with asceticism, bareness, or withdrawal, is one of the distinguishing and pervasive characteristics of Stevens’ poetic work. Bevis agues that this detachment is meditative and therefore experiential in origin. Moreover, the meditative Stevens of spare syntax and clear image is in constant tension with the romantic, imaginative Stevens of dazzling metaphors and exuberant flight. Indeed, for Bevis, Stevens is a poet not of imagination and reality, but of imagination and reality, but of imagination and meditation in relation to reality.
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- 2004-06-25
- 356 pages
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- 1988
- 343 pages
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