In American Poetic Materialism from Whitman to Stevens, Mark Noble examines writers who share the assumption that personhood can be understood as a material event. Through new readings of Whitman, Emerson, Santayana, and Stevens, Noble uncovers a literary history wrestling with the consequences of its own materialism, and asks what this account of shared materiality can tell us about the most profoundly secular models of the modern subject.
Philip Marsham was bred to the sea as far back as the days when he was cutting his milk teeth. His mother died when he was but a child. A few years later, he ran away from school to join his father aboard the ship, Sarah. In his nineteenth year, Phil was stricken with fever while his father sailed with the Sarah. Phil was sent to regain his health at an inn owned by Moll Stevens. This was in London, England, during the reign of Charles I.
Poetry and Repetition - Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens, John Ashbery
This book examines the function of repetition in the work of Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens and John Ashbery. All three poets extensively employ and comment upon the effects of repetition, yet represent three distinct poetics, considerably removed from one another in stylistic and historical terms.
Written by two prominent Chilean thinkers, this book outlines a unified scientificconception of mind, matter, and life.
If you are interested in biology, NLP, Buddhism, neurology, linguistics, systems theory, Bateson, Stevens or the movie "The Matrix," this book will give you a lot to chew on for a good long while. Highly recommended.
Wallace Stevens is a major American poet and a central figure in modernist studies and twentieth-century poetry. This Companion introduces students to his work. An international team of distinguished contributors presents a unified picture of Stevens' poetic achievement. The Introduction explains why Stevens is among the world's great poets and offers specific guidance on how to read and appreciate his poetry. A brief biographical sketch anchors Stevens in the real world and illuminates important personal and intellectual influences.
