Wallace Stevens across the Atlantic [Hardcover]

In a unique collection of essays devoted to one of America's most significant twentieth-century poets, a group of international contributors considers the Transatlantic nature of Stevens' poetry,?providing original accounts of how a poet wary of 'influence' created a poetics which continues to haunt contermporary verse.Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Abbreviations Preface; F.Kermode Introduction: The Lights of Norway and All That; B.Eeckhout& E.Ragg PART 1: DESCRIPTIONS?WITHOUT PLACE:?IDEAS?OF EUROPE?IN STEVENS 'The Switzerland of the Mind': Stevens' Invention of Europe; G.Lensing Stevens in Connecticut (and Denmark); J.Hillis Miller Stevens' Europe: Delicate Clinkings and Total Grandeur; R.Rehder PART?2:?BEYOND STATEN ISLAND: STEVENS?IN TRANSATLANTIC CONVERSATION? Stevens and the Crisis of European Philosophy; C.Altieri 'Without human meaning': Stevens, Heidegger and the Foreignness of Poetry; K.Ziarek Early Christianity in Late Stevens; J.Quinn 'The strange unlike': Stevens' Poetics of Resemblance; J.Cohen Stevens, Duchamp and the American 'Ism', 1915-1919; D.Haglund Picasso, C?zanne and Stevens' Abstract Engagements; E.Ragg Music and the Vocal Poetics of Stevens and Val?ry; L.Goldfarb PART 3:?GETTING IT STRAIGHT?AT?THE SORBONNE? STEVENS' AFTERLIFE?IN EUROPE Nicholas Moore, Stevens and the Fortune Press; M.Ford A Ghost Never Exorcized: Stevens in the Poetry of Charles Tomlinson; G.Reeves A?Poetics of Ignorance: Ant?nio Ramos Rosa and Stevens; I.Ramalho Santos Reading Stevens in Italian; M.Bacigalupo Coda: Ode to a Colossal Sun; H.Kos Index

'Stevens would have approved of this refreshingly creative form of commentary' - Jeannie Vanasco, Times Literary Supplement

'Re-affirming the complexity of a Stevens who resists poetic or national definition as either fully within the American grain or within the European one, Wallace Stevens Across the Atlantic will equally appeal to Stevens experts, scholars of American Modernism, and compal£N