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Wallace Stevens

A Literary Life

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  • © 2000

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Authors:
  1. Tony Sharpe

    1. Department of English, Lancaster University, UK

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Part of the book series: Literary Lives (LL)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. The Métier of Nothingness

    • Tony Sharpe
    Pages 1-18

  3. Starting with Nothing

    • Tony Sharpe
    Pages 19-51

  4. Strict Arrangements of Emptiness

    • Tony Sharpe
    Pages 52-80

  5. 1914–23: Accents of Deviation

    • Tony Sharpe
    Pages 81-110

  6. 1923–37: From the Edge to the Centre

    • Tony Sharpe
    Pages 111-146

  7. 1937–47: Helping People Live their Lives

    • Tony Sharpe
    Pages 147-176

  8. 1947–55: Private Man as Public Figure

    • Tony Sharpe
    Pages 177-198

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 199-220
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About this book

Tony Sharpe explores the symbiotic and antagonistic relations between Stevens's literary life and his working life as insurance executive, outlining the personal, historical and publishing contexts that shaped his writing career, and suggesting how awareness of these contexts throws new light on the poems. In this appreciative but not uncritical study, Sharpe tries to see the man behind the mandarin, whilst remaining alert to the challengingly sumptuous austerities of one of America's most significant poets.

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  • Department of English, Lancaster University, UK

    Tony Sharpe

About the author

Tony Sharpe is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of English at Lancaster University.

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