Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) has been acknowledged by writers as
diverse as Harold Bloom, Adrienne Rich and R.S. Thomas as one of
the central poets of the 20th century. Justin Quinn offers a
fundamental reassessment of Stevens's work and the connections it
makes between nature, community and art. He engages fully with the
recent wave of historicist criticism, and displays the shortcomings
of this approach, not only for a reading of Stevens, but also for
literature in general. Quinn asks in his introduction "why
shouldn't there be a criticism which attends to the societal
contexts of poetry without reneging on responsibilities to poetry
as a discourse distinct from politics and ideology, one with its
own special rhetorical funds and resources, which can nevertheless
allow it to comment on the political aspects of our lives in
special ways?" His book responds to that requirement and is a
valuable contribution to the critical debate on Wallace Stevens's
poetry.
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