The Necessary Angel - Essays on Reality and the Imagination

Wallace Stevens

Vintage

1965

192 páginas

6h 24m

ISBN-10: 0394702786

"In this book, the first collection of his prose works, he accounts in scintillating language for the peculiarly modern and sometimes deliquescent fervor that has prompted his poems. Few poets have written so characteristically about their own craft."
—Perspective—U.S.A.

"These are rich essays, simply constructed yet richly and elegantly written."
—Hayden Carruth, The Nation

"The most welcome attribute of the book is its humane good sense, equally manifest whether Stevens is discussing a desolate Pennsylvania churchyard. Plato's images or the personalities of those who prefer a drizzle in Venice to a hard rain in Hartford.'''
—New Republic

"It is a rare pleasure to breathe the atmosphere of confidence and wholeness which distinguishes the world of Wallace Stevens. Here we are refreshed by certainty without fragmentariness, by joyous possibilities without dishonesty. Here we find a moral and philosophical center through which reality may be repossessed and re-created with each new poetic act."
—C. Roland Wagner, The Hudson Review

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5 (Perfeito)

"... I am the necessary angel of earth, since, in my sight, you see the earth again" (W.S.)

The Necessary Angel é uma coletânea composta por sete ensaios de Wallace Stevens, escritos entre 1942 e 1951 para serem apresentados em conferências. Os ensaios refletem a visão metapoética do autor, com insights preciosos sobre a forma como Stevens concebia a natureza da poesia, sua relação com a realidade, a função do poeta e o lugar fundamental da imaginação no mundo moderno. Leitura indispensável para quem aprecia a poesia do autor de The Emperor of Ice Cream, The Snow Man, Of Modern Poetry e Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (alguns dos meus favoritos ❤️).