The Act of the Mind: Essays on the Poetry of Wallace Stevens

by J. Hillis Miller, Roy Harvey Pearce

This book is a study of Wallace Stevens as a philosophical poet. The essays explore the implications, the range, and the import of the ideas at work in Stevens' poetry. Wallace Stevens insisted on poetic solutions for the philosophical problems he raised. To understand Wallace Stevens, it is essential to stte and explore the ideas which are the basis for his poetry. In this volume twelve distinguished scholars explore these ideas and their occurrence in Stevens' poems. There are essays by Bernard Heringman, Frank Doggett, Robert Buttel, Samuel French Morse, and Michel Benamou.

287 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1965

About the author

J. Hillis Miller is UCI Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author, most recently, of Black Holes (which was published with J. Hillis Miller; or, Boustrophedonic Reading by Manuel Asensi) (Stanford, 1999)

Reviews

[Marydanielle]

Poetry as spirit - splendid criticism - pure light - stevens explodes in your mind