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Poetry, Word-Play, and Word-War in Wallace Stevens
By (Author) Eleanor Cook
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: poetry and poets
811.52
Paperback
342
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
454g
In the first full-length study of Wallace Stevens's word-play, Eleanor Cook focuses on Stevens's skillful play with grammar, etymology, allusion, and other elements of poetry, and suggests ways in which this play offers a method of approaching his work. At the same time, this book is a general study of Stevens's poetry, moving from his earliest to