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The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination by Wallace Stevens
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 1965-02-12
- Pages
- 192
- ISBN
- 9780394702780
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0394702786
ISBN-13
9780394702780
eBay Product ID (ePID)
159419
Product Key Features
Book Title
Necessary Angel : Essays on Reality and the Imagination
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1965
Topic
Poetry, American / General, Essays
Genre
Literary Criticism, Poetry, Literary Collections
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
5.2 Oz
Item Length
7.2 in
Item Width
4.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"In this book, the first collection of his prose works, he accounts in scintillating language for the peculiarly modern and sometimes deliquescent fervor that has prompted his poems. Few poets have written so characteristically about their own craft." --Perspective--U.S.A. "These are rich essays, simply constructed yet richly and elegantly written." -- Hayden Carruth,The Nation "The most welcome attribute of the book is its humane good sense, equally manifest whether Stevens is discussing a desolate Pennsylvania churchyard. Plato's images or the personalities of those who prefer a drizzle in Venice to a hard rain in Hartford.''' --New Republic "It is a rare pleasure to breathe the atmosphere of confidence and wholeness which distinguishes the world of Wallace Stevens. Here we are refreshed by certainty without fragmentariness, by joyous possibilities without dishonesty. Here we find a moral and philosophical center through which reality may be repossessed and re-created with each new poetic act." -- C. Roland Wagner,The Hudson Review, "In this book, the first collection of his prose works, he accounts in scintillating language for the peculiarly modern and sometimes deliquescent fervor that has prompted his poems. Few poets have written so characteristically about their own craft." -- Perspective --U.S.A. "These are rich essays, simply constructed yet richly and elegantly written." -- Hayden Carruth, The Nation "The most welcome attribute of the book is its humane good sense, equally manifest whether Stevens is discussing a desolate Pennsylvania churchyard. Plato's images or the personalities of those who prefer a drizzle in Venice to a hard rain in Hartford.''' -- New Republic "It is a rare pleasure to breathe the atmosphere of confidence and wholeness which distinguishes the world of Wallace Stevens. Here we are refreshed by certainty without fragmentariness, by joyous possibilities without dishonesty. Here we find a moral and philosophical center through which reality may be repossessed and re-created with each new poetic act." -- C. Roland Wagner, The Hudson Review
TitleLeading
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Dewey Decimal
808.1
Table Of Content
I. The Noble Rider and the Sound of Words II. The Figure of the Youth as Noble Poet III. Three Academic Pieces IV. About One of Marianne Moore's Poems V. Effects of Analogy VI. Imagination as Value VII. The Relations between Poetry and Painting
Synopsis
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., 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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- a***n (45)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseMistakenly ordered a paperback that I thought was a hardcover, not sellers fault; it was described properly on the listing. Seller still processed a refund the day I went to return the item and let me keep the item anyway. A+++ service. Book arrived quickly in great condition and for a great price. Thank you so much! Amazing seller!
- n***c (94)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseseller was communicative about my shipment, media mail took a while and tracking wasn't updated frequently, but seller communicated to me very quickly on status. the item came new and wrapped as described, though the packaging in it was packed wasn't sturdy and falling apart when it got to me.