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Title: Wallace Stevens: The Poems of Our Climate by Harold Bloom, William Golding ISBN: 0-8014-9185-1 Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr Pub. Date: December, 1980 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The personality of "interpretive" poetics
Comment: Bloom has written this book after an obviously long devotion to reading Stevens and to developing his critical methods, in one of its modes, to a fine precision. The reader of this book benefits most by a slow absorbtion of the varied terminology that Bloom had accumulated previous to this work and the additions then newly made to it. The approach to Stevens' poetry is immediate in its variance from most previous criticism and especially passive reading, or "weak misreading" as B. would call it. To follow him closely is to slough the innocence of idealizing all poetry as committed to presenting its own meaning. Unwitting believers of the like, deterred by Bloom's criticism for appearing so staunchly definitive (though an immediate antidote to a belief in the floppiness of poetry), havn't realized that beyond his belief (on particularly fine display) in the strong potential of formalizing tropes and decoding of intertextualities, is the existance in poetry of its reader's 'becoming' the text that is read, and to do it inventively, eccentrically, and considerately is essentially to further poetry itself.
Rating: 2
Summary: The title is a misnomer...
Comment: ... since it leads you to believe that its subject matter is interesting.
After ordering this book and wading through its first few chapters, I had one overwhelming thought:
Thank you, Amazon.com, for your marvelous return policy.
Bloom is one of our better critics in terms of readability, but still... Unless you have a great appetite for arid erudition, just stick to reading the poetry itself. This book has more to do with some pet theory of Bloom's than with Stevens' poetry, or our climate--both of which could have been fascinating subjects for a book.
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Title: Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen Out of Desire by Helen Hennessy Vendler ISBN: 0674945751 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: October, 1986 List Price(USD): $14.50 |
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Title: On Extended Wings: Wallace Stevens' Longer Poems by Helen Hennessy Vendler ISBN: 0674634365 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: June, 1969 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens by Wallace Stevens ISBN: 0679726691 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 19 February, 1990 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Necessary Angel : Essays on Reality and the Imagination by Wallace Stevens ISBN: 0394702786 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 February, 1965 List Price(USD): $9.00 |
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Title: Kabbalah & Criticism by Harold Bloom, William Golding ISBN: 0826402429 Publisher: Continuum Pub. Date: December, 1983 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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