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<p> Lucidly written and attentive to the formal processes of the poetry, this is an original and useful study. <br> --Journal of Modern Literature

Lucidly written and attentive to the formal processes of the poetry, this is an original and useful study. --Journal of Modern Literature

Bevis does an excellent job of discussing a difficult subject, an aconceptual state of consciousness for which the West lacks a decent vocabulary. He revises the polemics of Stevens criticism, especially by seeing the old reality vs. imagination dichotomy in an entirely new way... Fascinating reading. -The Wallace Stevens Journal | Lucidly written and attentive to the formal processes of the poetry, this is an original and useful study. -Journal of Modern Literature | Bevis reconciles asceticism with Stevens' theory of the poetic mind... Bevis also tries to reconcile Marjorie Perloff's 'constructionist' poetics with Helen Vendler's 'expressive' model; Bevis accomplishes such a maneuver by taking up Perloff's 'topic of impersonality,' which she has used against Stevens, and turning it on its head, so that in the end Bevis' Stevens has become Perloff's Pound. -American Literature

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William W. Bevis is emeritus professor of English at the University of Montana.

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