Wallace Stevens and the Symbolist Imagination

Michel Benamou’s essays have established his reputation as a critical interpreter of Stevens’ relation to the French poetic tradition. Mr. Benamou has now collected these essays in one volume, revising and expanding them, and has added a general introduction. He discusses, in turn, Stevens’ affinities with and differences from Baudelaire, Laforgue, Mallarme, Apollinaire, the Impressionists, and the Cubists.

Originally published in 1972.

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