Wallace Stevens: The later years, 1923-1955
Author | : Joan Richardson |
Publisher | : Beech Tree Paperback Book |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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The second volume of this biography begins with the publication of Stevens' Harmonium (1923) and ends with his death at the age of 76. These years of melancholy life were marked by success, both in writing as well as in the pursuit of a business career. Richardson believes that the decade following 1923 was one of deliberate silence during which Stevens absorbed the insights of the Protestant ethic, philosophy and science, and retreated to the family circle. When he resumed writing in 1934, he could scarcely ignore the political and social tensions of the day. According to Richardson, during the last 15 years of his life Stevens not only wrote enduring poems like "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction" and "The Auroras of Autumn," but also delivered lectures and poetry readings and received the Bollingen Prize, two National Book Awards, and The Pulitzer Prize. ISBN 0-688-06860-X (v.2): $27.95.