Helen Vendler’s On Extended Wings Today

(No one else has ever won for a single-author study of a twentiethcentury writer.) The book has since become part of the DNA of Stevens criticism-and poetry criticism more generally. To state the obvious: the cultural tum in literary studies, the theory wars, the emergence of transnational and empirical approaches to scholarship, interdisciplinarity. [...]she is content to provide a generous and generative foundation for more pointed accounts of Stevens' poetics, including the accounts mentioned above. [...]rereading the book through the lens of the current moment is an opportunity to test its value, and to reflect on the history of Stevens scholarship and literary criticism.