{"product_id":"on-extended-wings-wallace-stevens-longer-poems-9780674634367","title":"On Extended Wings: Wallace Stevens' Longer Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eThough Wallace Stevens' shorter poems are perhaps his best known, his longer poems, Helen Vendler suggests in this book, deserve equal fame and equal consideration. Stevens' central theme--the worth of the imagination--remained with him all his life, and Mrs. Vendler therefore proposes that his development as a poet can best be seen, not in description--which must be repetitive--of the abstract bases of his work, but rather in a view of his changing styles. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe author presents here a chronological account of fourteen longer poems that span a thirty-year period, showing, through Stevens' experiments in genre, diction, syntax, voice, imagery, and meter, the inventive variety of Stevens's work in long forms, and providing at the same time a coherent reading of these difficult poems. She concludes, \"Stevens was engaged in constant experimentation all his life in an attempt to find the appropriate vehicle for his expansive consciousness; he found it in his later long poems, which surpass in value the rest of his work.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Helen Vendler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/1969\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.15h x 5.25w x 0.99d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674634367\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRevised Edition\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42440519254153,"sku":"9780674634367","price":41.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_d91cc535-dcc4-4902-ab5c-55c0a9d6c556.jpg?v=1716238865","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/on-extended-wings-wallace-stevens-longer-poems-9780674634367","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}