This dazzling book is at once an indispensable guide to Stevens\'s poetic canon and a significant addition to the literature on the American Romantic movement.
No other book on Stevens is as ambitious or compr.
It gives authoritative readings of the major long Poems and sequences of Stevens and deals at length with the important shorter works as well, showing their complex relations both to one another and to the work of Stevens\'s precursors, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Emerson, and Whitman.
This dazzling book is at once an indispensable guide to Stevens\'s poetic canon and a significant addition to the literature on the American Romantic movement