Charles Altieri is Stageberg Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of many books, including The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects, also from Cornell, and Postmodernisms Now: Essays on Contemporaneity in the Arts.

• 1. Philosophical Poetry and the Demands of Modernity2. Harmonium as a Modernist Text3. "Ghostlier Demarcations, Keener Sounds": The Parts Negation Played in Developing a New Poetic4. How Stevens Uses the Grammar of As5. Aspectual Thinking6. Stevens's Tragic Mode: Why the Angel Must Disappear in “Angel Surrounded by Paysans”7. Aspect- Seeing and Its Implications in The RockNotesBibliographyIndex

Altieri provides the most authoritative treatment of Stevens in more than a decade.... He combines aesthetics and philosophy in a rigorous manner that is nonetheless resolutely literary. Wisely eschewing a commentary on all of Stevens's poems, Altieri extracts original interpretive insights from close reading, as seen in his discernment, in 'Farewell to Florida,' of a flight from the female that is as much wishful thinking as renunciation, and a reading of 'Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird' in which he emphasizes how the different perspectives 'fuse' over the disjunction emphasized by critics such as Harold Bloom. Altieri's detailed explication... reveals him as a dazzling reader of this difficult poet. Summing Up: Highly recommended.(Choice)

Charles Altieri is Stageberg Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of many books, including The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects, also from Cornell, and Postmodernisms Now: Essays on Contemporaneity in the Arts.

• 1. Philosophical Poetry and the Demands of Modernity2. Harmonium as a Modernist Text3. "Ghostlier Demarcations, Keener Sounds": The Parts Negation Played in Developing a New Poetic4. How Stevens Uses the Grammar of As5. Aspectual Thinking6. Stevens's Tragic Mode: Why the Angel Must Disappear in “Angel Surrounded by Paysans”7. Aspect- Seeing and Its Implications in The RockNotesBibliographyIndex

Altieri provides the most authoritative treatment of Stevens in more than a decade.... He combines aesthetics and philosophy in a rigorous manner that is nonetheless resolutely literary. Wisely eschewing a commentary on all of Stevens's poems, Altieri extracts original interpretive insights from close reading, as seen in his discernment, in 'Farewell to Florida,' of a flight from the female that is as much wishful thinking as renunciation, and a reading of 'Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird' in which he emphasizes how the different perspectives 'fuse' over the disjunction emphasized by critics such as Harold Bloom. Altieri's detailed explication... reveals him as a dazzling reader of this difficult poet. Summing Up: Highly recommended.(Choice)

Charles Altieri is Stageberg Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of many books, including The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects, also from Cornell, and Postmodernisms Now: Essays on Contemporaneity in the Arts.

• 1. Philosophical Poetry and the Demands of Modernity2. Harmonium as a Modernist Text3. "Ghostlier Demarcations, Keener Sounds": The Parts Negation Played in Developing a New Poetic4. How Stevens Uses the Grammar of As5. Aspectual Thinking6. Stevens's Tragic Mode: Why the Angel Must Disappear in “Angel Surrounded by Paysans”7. Aspect- Seeing and Its Implications in The RockNotesBibliographyIndex

Altieri provides the most authoritative treatment of Stevens in more than a decade.... He combines aesthetics and philosophy in a rigorous manner that is nonetheless resolutely literary. Wisely eschewing a commentary on all of Stevens's poems, Altieri extracts original interpretive insights from close reading, as seen in his discernment, in 'Farewell to Florida,' of a flight from the female that is as much wishful thinking as renunciation, and a reading of 'Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird' in which he emphasizes how the different perspectives 'fuse' over the disjunction emphasized by critics such as Harold Bloom. Altieri's detailed explication... reveals him as a dazzling reader of this difficult poet. Summing Up: Highly recommended.(Choice)