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Wallace Stevens, New York, and Modernism (Paperback)
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Wallace Stevens, New York, and Modernism (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
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This unique essay collection considers the impact of New York on
the life and works of Wallace Stevens. Stevens lived in New York
from 1900 to 1916, working briefly as a journalist, going to law
school, laboriously starting up a career as a lawyer, getting
engaged and married, gradually mixing with local avant-garde
circles, and eventually emerging as one of the most exciting and
surprising voices in modern poetry. Although he then left the city
for a job in Hartford, Stevens never saw himself as a Hartford poet
and kept gravitating toward New York for nearly all things that
mattered to him privately and poetically: visits to galleries and
museums, theatrical and musical performances, intellectual and
artistic gatherings, shopping sprees and gastronomical indulgences.
Recent criticism of the poet has sought to understand how Stevens
interacted with the literary, artistic, and cultural forces of his
time to forge his inimitable aesthetic, with its peculiar mix of
post-romantic responses to nature and a metropolitan
cosmopolitanism. This volume deepens our understanding of the
multiple ways in which New York and its various aesthetic
attractions figured in Stevens' life, both at a biographical and
poetic level.
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