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The necessary angel: essays on reality and the imagination

By Wallace , Stevens

Book information

Publisher
Vintage Books
Year
2013
ISBN
9780307790668, 0307790665
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2865393 bytes)
Edition
Unabridged
Pages
\178
Time added
2020-11-29 04:20:42

Description

In this collection of essays, consummate poet Wallace Stevens reflects upon his art. His aim is not to produce a work of criticism or philosophy, or a mere discussion of poetic technique. As he explains in his introduction, his ambition in these various pieces, published in different times and places, aimed higher than that, in the direction of disclosing "poetry itself, the naked poem, the imagination manifesting itself in its domination of words." Stevens proves himself as eloquent and scintillating in prose as in poetry, as he both analyzes and demonstrates the essential act of repossessing reality through the imagination.

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