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• catalog abstract "Janet McCann adds an important dimension to our understanding of Stevens in this updated look at his oeuvre, from Harmonium (1923) and Idea of Order (1936) through the Collected Poems (1954) and Opus Posthumous (1957). The interplay of opposing forces in Stevens's work, she argues, reflect a lifelong search for a new metaphysic, a replacement for the Christianity he discarded in his youth. Reading poems from every phase in his life, McCann finds evidence of the intellectual rigor of this search. In Harmonium, she finds Stevens stripping away the vestiges of childhood religious beliefs; in The Man with the Blue Guitar (1937), she reveals his approach to atheism; and in later poems she finds a revitalized religious inquiry, leading to the poet's deathbed conversion to Roman Catholicism. In many poems, McCann reveals Stevens's reverence for a natural order of things, expressed in both meter and image, and in others she shows us his beliefs about art as a spiritually transformative process. Based in part on new biographical material, McCann's analysis diverges from much New Historicist and Marxist criticism by focusing on Stevens's preoccupation with things of the spirit, and on his progression toward the metaphysical. Of special interest are her reflections on Stevens in his early milieu, and his interest in the experimental movements of the avant garde, such as Dadaism and cubism. Stevens's poetry, she shows us, brought the aesthetics of these new art movements to bear on some very old questions. Her study brings us important new insights into the work of an artist for whom, as he put it, "the major poetic idea in the world is and always has been the idea of God."".
• catalog contributor b8234277.
• catalog created "c1995.".
• catalog date "1995".
• catalog date "c1995.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
• catalog description ""The marvelous sophomore": the poems of Harmonium -- "Ghostlier demarcations": ideas of order -- "Things as they are": Owl's clover and The man with the blue guitar -- "This descant of a self": Parts of a world -- "He that of repetition is most master": Transport to summer -- "An abstraction to blooded": The auroras of autumn -- "The celestial possible": last poems -- Conclusion: Stevens and criticism, Stevens and history.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-157) and index.".
• catalog description "Janet McCann adds an important dimension to our understanding of Stevens in this updated look at his oeuvre, from Harmonium (1923) and Idea of Order (1936) through the Collected Poems (1954) and Opus Posthumous (1957). The interplay of opposing forces in Stevens's work, she argues, reflect a lifelong search for a new metaphysic, a replacement for the Christianity he discarded in his youth. Reading poems from every phase in his life, McCann finds evidence of the intellectual rigor of this search. In Harmonium, she finds Stevens stripping away the vestiges of childhood religious beliefs; in The Man with the Blue Guitar (1937), she reveals his approach to atheism; and in later poems she finds a revitalized religious inquiry, leading to the poet's deathbed conversion to Roman Catholicism. In many poems, McCann reveals Stevens's reverence for a natural order of things, expressed in both meter and image, and in others she shows us his beliefs about art as a spiritually transformative process. Based in part on new biographical material, McCann's analysis diverges from much New Historicist and Marxist criticism by focusing on Stevens's preoccupation with things of the spirit, and on his progression toward the metaphysical. Of special interest are her reflections on Stevens in his early milieu, and his interest in the experimental movements of the avant garde, such as Dadaism and cubism. Stevens's poetry, she shows us, brought the aesthetics of these new art movements to bear on some very old questions. Her study brings us important new insights into the work of an artist for whom, as he put it, "the major poetic idea in the world is and always has been the idea of God."".
• catalog extent "xvi, 162 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Wallace Stevens revisited.".
• catalog identifier "0805776443 (alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Wallace Stevens revisited.".
• catalog isPartOf "Twayne's United States authors series ; TUSAS 617".
• catalog issued "1995".
• catalog issued "c1995.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Twayne Publishers ; London : Prentice Hall International,".
• catalog relation "Wallace Stevens revisited.".
• catalog subject "811/.52 20".
• catalog subject "Metaphysics in literature.".
• catalog subject "PS3537.T4753 Z6777 1995".
• catalog subject "Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955 Criticism and interpretation.".
• catalog tableOfContents ""The marvelous sophomore": the poems of Harmonium -- "Ghostlier demarcations": ideas of order -- "Things as they are": Owl's clover and The man with the blue guitar -- "This descant of a self": Parts of a world -- "He that of repetition is most master": Transport to summer -- "An abstraction to blooded": The auroras of autumn -- "The celestial possible": last poems -- Conclusion: Stevens and criticism, Stevens and history.".
• catalog title "Wallace Stevens revisited : "the celestial possible" / Janet McCann.".
• catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
• catalog type "text".