A Reader's Guide to Wallace Stevens is an indispensable resource and the perfect companion to The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, first published in 1954 in honor of Stevens's seventy-fifth birthday, as well as to the 1997 collection ...

This is the first full-length study of the lyrics, and includes detailed analyses of such well-known poems as Love Among the Ruins, Two in the Campagna, A Serenade at the Villa, A Toccata of Galuppi's, By the Fireside, and James Lee's Wife.

This book looks at how poems work, showing how they speak to historical, ethical, and aesthetic questions.

Eleanor Cook traces Bishop’s growing confidence and sense of freedom, from her first collection, North & South, to Questions of Travel, in which she fully realized her poetic powers, to Geography III and the breathtaking late poems, ...

At the same time, this book is a general study of Stevens's poetry, moving from his earliest to his latest work, and includes close readings of three of his remarkable long poems--Esthetique du Mal, Notes toward a Supreme Fiction, and An ...

A wide-ranging and original study on how enigmas and riddles work in literature.

Personal records of Eleanor Cook, Professor Emerita of English at Victoria College, consisting of files on her education; on her teaching and writings, including grants, courses taught, lecture notes, addresses and manuscripts of ...