The Violence Within/The Violence Without: Wallace Stevens...
Brogan, Jacqueline Vaught
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), one of the leading poets of the twentieth century, continues to influence a wide range of poets writing today. However, an image persists of Stevens as an aesthete who was politically removed from his times and who also exhibited sexist and racist tendencies. Jacqueline Vaught Brogan offers careful readings from across the Stevens canon to demonstrate that contrary to such enduring earlier assessments, Stevens's wo...
