Description: Jacqueline Vaught Brogan offers careful readings from across the Stevens canon to demonstrate that, contrary to such enduring earlier assessments, Stevens's work over the years shows poetic and political changes that merge with his growing ethical concerns.
Brief description: JACQUELINE VAUGHT BROGAN is a professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. Her books include Stevens and Simile and Part of the Climate, as well as a collection of her own poetry, Damage.
Review Quotes:
Brogan's book proposes nothing less than a total political revision of Wallace Stevens' commitments. . . . This indeed has all the rumblings of a revolution.
--Boston Review