Notations of the wild : ecology in the poetry of Wallace Stevens /
In the summer of 1903, just before he turned twenty-four, Wallace Stevens joined a six-week hunting expedition to the wilderness of British Columbia. The adventure profoundly influenced his conceptions of language and silence, his symbolic geography, and his sensibilities toward wild nature as nonhu...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
©1997.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | In the summer of 1903, just before he turned twenty-four, Wallace Stevens joined a six-week hunting expedition to the wilderness of British Columbia. The adventure profoundly influenced his conceptions of language and silence, his symbolic geography, and his sensibilities toward wild nature as nonhuman "other." The rugged western mountains came to represent that promontory of experience-"green's green apogee"--Against which Stevens would measure the reality of all his later perceptions and conceptions and by which he would judge the purpose and value of works of the human imagination. Notations. |
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| Item Description: | Project MUSE Universal EBA Ebooks |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (195 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-190) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 1587292459 9781587292453 |
