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The Contemplated Spouse: The Letters of Wallace Stevens to Elsie by University of South Carolina Press (Hardback, 2005)

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The Contemplated Spouse gathers in a single volume the 272 extant letters written by Wallace Stevens to the woman with whom he shared his life, Elsie Viola Kachel. Written over the span of twenty-five years, the correspondence reflects Elsie's evolving relationship with Stevens, initially as his friend, then as his fiancee, and later as his wife. Taken collectively these personal letters from one of America's most important poets reveal aspects of Stevens's personality that his poetry discloses more obliquely. Most significant, they demonstrate Stevens's devotion to his wife through years of an uneven and often distant partnership. Stevens wrote to Elsie for more than five years prior to their marriage, and for more than twenty years he wrote to her as his wife. The couple spent much of their married life apart as he traveled for business and vacationed without her. Even when living in the same house, the couple often operated in separate realms. Their camaraderie, however, rekindled in Stevens's final years, and Elsie remained an important source of inspiration. Stevens's earlier, more intimate letters, though never free from his internal censor, foreshadow the poems he later published. Incidents he describes in his pre-1913 correspondence recur throughout his can. His later letters, penned after his marriage, comment on the geography that would surface in his poetry - the Carolinas, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Key West. The collection is augmented by editor J. Donald Blount's introduction - an overview of Stevens's life and his relationship with Elsie - and extensive foottes to the letters that provide essential information about Stevens's references.

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Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
ISBN-10
1570032483
ISBN-13
9781570032486
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96183624

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Hardback
Language
English
Topic
Anthologies
Genre
Anthologies

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229mm
Width
152mm

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Place of Publication
South Carolina
Edited by
J.Donald Blount
Date of Publication
01/09/2005
Content Note
1 Illustration
Country of Publication
United States
Author Biography
(Aiken, SC) Professor of English, University of South Carolina Aiken His research interest in Wallace Stevens began at a National Endowment for the Humanities seminar at Yale in 1989.

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