Description
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1980. Wallace Stevens: The Making of the Poem emphasizes the ideas that Wallace Stevens embeds in his poetry, providing the first study to provide an intellectual biography of Stevens. It examines Stevens' naturalism, his ideas of the self, and the imagination, among other topics. The concepts that emerge from long reading of the poetry of Stevens are slight and basic, but these concepts do accord, even if they never emerge into a coherent philosophy. The accordance is probably a result of Stevens' preference for naturalistic thought.
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Chapter 1. The Voice, the Book, the Hidden Well
Chapter 2. The Maker of a Thing Yet to Be Made
Chapter 3. A Possible for Its Possibleness
Chapter 4. These Images Repeat and Are Increased
Chapter 5. One Looks at the Sea
Chapter 6. It Must Change
Chapter 7. The Style and the Poem Were One
Index of Poems
Index of Names and Titles
