Wallace Stevens: Imagination and Faith (Princeton Essays in Literature) - Hardcover

Morris, Adalaide Kirby

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 069106265X ISBN 13: 9780691062655

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1974

Synopsis

The search for a substitute for religion, Adalaide Kirby Morris argues, occupies Stevens' poetic energy from his earliest to his latest work. It emerges in his patterns of speech, in his symbols, and in his poetic forms; it encompasses a critique of Christianity, often wryly humorous and sometimes bitterly satiric; and it results in a theory of poetry that becomes a mystical theology.

At the center of this mystical theology, the author finds, is the conviction that God and the imagination arc one. The study concludes that poetry provides for Stevens a sanction, a solace, a form of order, a source of delight, and a means of redemption through which men arc saved, and natural fact is transformed into divine force.

Originally published in 1974.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1974
• ISBN 10: 069106265X
• ISBN 13: 9780691062655
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 216
• Editor: Buttel Robert