Publication

1996-12-24 - University of California Press

Language

English

Word Count

240,000 words, Guess

Page Count

960 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

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Classifications

  • LCCPS3537.T4753 Z53

Description

Long unavailable, now in paperback for the first time, these are the brilliant, subtle, illuminating letters of one of the great poets of the twentieth century. Wallace Stevens's famous criterion for poetry - "It should give pleasure" - informed his epistolary aesthetic as well; these letters stimulate one's appetite for poetry as they valorize the imagination and the senses. They also offer fascinating glimpses of Stevens as family man, insurance executive, connoisseur, and friend.

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