Available Formats
Wallace Stevens: Imagination and Faith
By (Author) Adalaide Kirby Morris
Edited by Robert Buttel
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
811.52
Hardback
220
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
482g
The search for a substitute for religion, Adalaide Kirby Morris argues, occupies Stevens' poetic energy from his earliest to his latest work. It emerges in his patterns of speech, in his symbols, and in his poetic forms; it encompasses a critique of Christianity, often wryly humorous and sometimes bitterly satiric; and it results in a theory of poe