The Wallace Stevens Case

Download or read book The Wallace Stevens Case written by Jamarion Henry and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wallace Stevens was not only one of America's outstanding modernist poets but also a successful insurance lawyer--a fact that continues to intrigue many readers. Though Stevens tried hard to separate his poetry from his profession, legal theorist Jamarion Henry shows that he did not ultimately succeed. After stressing how little connection appears on the surface between the two parts of Stevens's life, Grey argues that in its pragmatic account of human reasoning, the poetry distinctively illuminates the workings of the law.