Background
MacLeod, Glen Gary was born on October 10, 1948 in Berea, Ohio, United States. Son of William and Laura (Hall) MacLeod.
(It is well known that the poetry of Wallace Stevens refle...)
It is well known that the poetry of Wallace Stevens reflected his interest in the visual arts, but until now no one has recognized the poet's close involvement with the art of his own era. In this book, Glen MacLeod shows how Stevens was engaged with contemporary art theory, artists, art dealers, and artworks, and argues that this interaction played a central role in his poetry, his poetic theory, and the unusual character of his poetic development. MacLeod demonstrates that Stevens' first book, Harmonium, reflects his involvement with New York Dada during the 1910s; that such major poems as "The Man with the Blue Guitar" and "Notes toward a Supreme Fiction" record his interest in the rival doctrines of surrealism and abstraction during the 1930s and early 1940s; and that the highly abstract late poetry of The Auroras of Autumn parallels in surprising ways the contemporary Abstract Expressionist movement. Aspects of Stevens' poetry that have long troubled his critics - for example, his insistence that poetry must be abstract, his lack of interest in formal experimentation, and his personal "imagination-reality complex" - are clarified when they are seen in the context of his relation to avant-garde art. Stevens' awareness of contemporary issues in the art world helped to determine his subjects, his critical vocabulary, and the ways of thinking that he explored in both his poetry and his essays. In this light, his point of view seems less peculiar, more a part of the living critical discourse at the heart of American art and literature.
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MacLeod, Glen Gary was born on October 10, 1948 in Berea, Ohio, United States. Son of William and Laura (Hall) MacLeod.
Bachelor, Wesleyan University, 1971. Master of Arts, Princeton University, 1978. Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1981.
From instructor to assistant professor English Southampton College Long Island University, Southampton, New York, 1980-1983. From assistant professor to professor English University Connecticut, Waterbury, since 1983. Member editorial board Paideuma, The Wallace Stevens Journal, William Carlos Williams Review.
(It is well known that the poetry of Wallace Stevens refle...)
(Cambridge Core - American Studies - Wallace Stevens in Co...)
2017(Book by Glen G. MacLeod)
Member Modern Language Association, American Association of University Professors, American Literature Association, Wallace Stevens Society, William Carlos Williams Society.