{"product_id":"making-the-poem-stevens-approaches-9780807168943","title":"Making the Poem: Stevens' Approaches","description":"\u003cp\u003eOver sixty years after his death, Wallace Stevens remains one of the major figures of American modernist poetry, celebrated for his masterful style, formal rigor, and aesthetic investigations of the natural, political, and metaphysical worlds. In \u003ci\u003eMaking the Poem\u003c\/i\u003e, noted Stevens scholar George S. Lensing explores the poet's progress in the creation of his body of work, considering its development, composition, and reception. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on little-known sources and nuanced readings of Stevens' texts, Lensing expands the customary view of the poet's creative approaches. This wide-ranging study extends from the origins and overlapping themes of well-known poems through the social and political backgrounds that marked Stevens' work to the prosodic and musical elements central to his style. \u003ci\u003eMaking the Poem\u003c\/i\u003e features a dynamic new reading of the important early poem \"Sea Surface Full of Clouds\"--viewing it alongside his wife Elsie's journal describing the sea voyage that inspired the poem--and an extensive, multiperspective treatment of the widely anthologized \"The Idea of Order at Key West,\" as well as a careful excavation of the poem \"Mozart, 1935\" in the context of the U.S. Great Depression. Lensing concludes with a discussion of the gradual (and sometimes reluctant) recognition Stevens' work received from poets and critics in Great Britain and Ireland. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStemming from decades of research and writing, \u003ci\u003eMaking the Poem: Stevens' Approaches\u003c\/i\u003e presents a holistic view of his creative achievements and a wealth of new material for readers to draw upon in their future encounters with the poetry of Wallace Stevens.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e George S. Lensing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e LSU Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/09\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.50w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807168943\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeorge S. Lensing is Mann Family Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of \u003ci\u003eWallace Stevens: A Poet's Growth \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWallace Stevens and the Seasons\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43197334192243,"sku":"9.78081E+12","price":79.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_b7ed9bad-0be4-4e40-a978-17040368198c.jpg?v=1752665305","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/making-the-poem-stevens-approaches-9780807168943","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}