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Mind of Winter: Wallace Stevens, Meditation, and Literature
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988 Cloth: 978-0-8229-3598-8 | eISBN: 978-0-8229-7655-4 | Paper: 978-0-8229-8511-2 Library of Congress Classification PS3537.T4753Z5956 1988 Dewey Decimal Classification 811.52
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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. See other books on: 1879-1955 | Meditation | Mind | Stevens, Wallace | Winter See other titles from University of Pittsburgh Press |
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