Description
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1966. Stevens' Poetry of Thought is the first full-length study of Wallace Stevens as a thinker. With original insight, Mr. Doggett provides many detailed interpretations of individual poems in examining Steven's imagery. This is a pertinent treatment of Stevens' inherent affinity with the philosophic imagination of his time, showing how firmly this poet was linked through his images with the leading thinkers of the age just passedespecially Schopenhauer, Bergson, Santayana, Whitehead, William James, Jung, and Cassirer. The clear and perceptive reading of a great many of the poems in this book should illuminate the work of Stevens for all the readers who admire his language and wish for further insight into its significance. Beyond being a definitive exposition of Steven' poetry and a meaningful act of faith in the intellectual sophistication of Stevens, this is an exciting study of the human imagination which satisfies the need for distinction between poetry an
Table of ContentsPreface
Chapter 1. The Poet of Earth
Chapter 2. Our Nature Is Her Nature
Chapter 3. Variations on a Nude
Chapter 4. The River That Flows Nowhere
Chapter 5. You and the Shapes You Take
Chapter 6. This Invented World
Chapter 7. The Amorist Adjective Aflame
Chapter 8. The Mind in Root
Chapter 9. Sun, Moon, Day, Night, Music, and Rock
Chapter 10. The Poetry of Thought
Index of Poems
Index of Names and Titles
