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- Corrections to the Library of America Edition of Stevens’s Poetry
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Abstract: WALLACE STEVENS was lucky to have Alfred A. Knopf as his publisher. Despite the limited sales of Harmonium in 1923 and the early reviews labeling Stevens as an aesthete and a dandy, Knopf reissued Harmonium in a slightly expanded edition in 1931.1 Then, starting with Ideas of Order in 1936, book after book followed in fairly short order: The Man with the Blue Guitar & Other Poems (1937); Parts of a World (1942); Transport to Summer (1947); The Auroras of Autumn (1950); and The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination (1951). Between 1950 and 1953, Knopf reissued all of the previously published poetry volumes and in 1954 published The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens. But Knopf did not stop there. ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-04-14T00:00:00-05:00
- The Poem as Work on Paper: The Illustrated Esthétique du Mal
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Abstract: LIKE OTHER LONG POEMS by Wallace Stevens, the composition of his wartime poem “Esthétique du Mal” was partly shaped by the dimensions of the legal notepad sheets on which it was drafted. When critics address the genesis of Stevens’s poems, they reflexively—and rightly—recall the image of Stevens composing his poems on walks to and from work, his lines the product of a perambulatory rhythm and thinking. But equally pertinent to a poem like “Esthétique du Mal” is the image of Stevens as a kind of draftsman, rounding off his rhetorical flights according to the space of the notepad. Think, for example, of the retroactivity of Stevens’s phrase in an interview on the composition of the poem, where he explains that he ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-04-14T00:00:00-05:00
- As If in a Book: Everyday Reading in Stevens
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Abstract: When I complain of the “bareness”—I have in mind, very often, the effect of order and regularity, the effect of moving in a groove. . . . But books make up. They shatter the groove, as far as the mind is concerned. They are like so many fantastic lights filling plain darkness with strange colors.“OFTEN WHEN I am writing poetry,” Wallace Stevens explained in a 1949 letter to Barbara Church, “I have in mind an image of reading a page of a large book” (L 642). Unsurprisingly, therefore, meta-readerly scenes occur from first to last in Stevens’s verse, and they illustrate his changing ideas not just about the lyric but about creativity itself. “[W]hat one ought to find” in poetry, Stevens insisted in the same letter ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-04-14T00:00:00-05:00
- Stevens’s Poetics of Atmosphere in “Sea Surface Full of
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Abstract: Bo Ya the qin [zither] player strummed, his thoughts on climbing tall mountains. Ziqi the woodcutter, happening nearby, said, “How splendidly you play! Soaring like the mountains!” Another day, Bo Ya’s thoughts turned to flowing waters, and Ziqi said, “Your qin! It roils and washes like a river!” The two became fast friends, and years later when Ziqi died, Bo Ya smashed his qin and cut its strings. Till the end of his days he never played again because nobody in the world could hear his tone.1A PLACE, whether a mountain slope or a river side, evokes an im- pression characteristic of that place. A melody evokes an impres- sion characteristic of that melody. It is possible for these impressions to resemble one ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-04-14T00:00:00-05:00
- “Not Ideas About the Thing but the Thing Itself”: Stevens and
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Abstract: SEVERAL YEARS AGO, I noticed striking resemblances between George Santayana’s Scepticism and Animal Faith (1923) and Wallace Stevens’s The Rock, the poet’s last “book” of poems which appears in his Collected Poems (1954). The resemblances were so extensive, in fact, that I was willing to experiment with a hypothesis: that Santayana’s philosophical classic provided inspiration for Stevens’s book of twenty-five poems on a pretty much chapter-for-poem basis. For fifteen months during the Covid-19 quarantine and after, I tested this thesis in the company of some two dozen experts in literature and philosophy via twice-monthly Zoom discussions hosted by the Santayana Society.1 In light of others’ suggestions and ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-04-14T00:00:00-05:00
- Sky Islands in the Distance
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Abstract: There is clear support for the idea that mental states are subjective if they are ascribed to creatures who can ascribe them to themselves without observation, by other creatures who can ascribe similar states to themselves in the same ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-04-14T00:00:00-05:00
- The Poetic Music of Wallace Stevens by Bart Eeckhout and Lisa Goldfarb
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Abstract: If a poem is like a picture, it is like an object, with the manifest presence of a thing. To say a poem is like music is to say it is like a process or performance, an event happening in time, and therefore fugitive. While pictures may or may not be mimetic, music rarely is, and that lack of external reference adds to the impression of fugitivity. When we look at a picture, we stand in a frontal, focalized orientation to an object at a certain distance from us. When we listen to music, even when we are seated in a hall, we are surrounded by an ambient phenomenon with no fixed location. Music sweeps over and through us. Arguably, because sound waves physically enter the body via the ear canal, music is present as ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-04-14T00:00:00-05:00
- Wallace Stevens and Martin Heidegger: Poetry as Appropriative Proximity by
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Abstract: Ian Tan’s book is the first extended study of Wallace Stevens devoted almost entirely to the conversation of Stevens’s poetic oeuvre with Martin Heidegger’s ideas about poetry, dwelling, and the event (das Ereignis). What sets the study apart from other scholarly books or essays that explore the relation between Stevens and Heidegger is, first, the comprehensive nature of Tan’s treatment of Stevens, which begins with Harmonium and proceeds all the way to the last poems from 1954–55; and second, the focus on Heidegger’s notion of the Ereignis. It is indeed the Ereignis that constitutes not only the pivot of Tan’s presentation of Heidegger but also the prism for his extensive analysis of Stevens’s poetry. The ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-04-14T00:00:00-05:00
- Poetry in a Global Age by Jahan Ramazani (review)
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Abstract: If poetry has historically been seen as a provincial, local, or national genre, then Jahan Ramazani’s most recent book, Poetry in a Global Age, adds to an emergent discourse that rethinks poetry within transnational, global, and planetary scales. Readers of scholarship on poetry are likely familiar with the work of Ramazani, the University Professor and Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English at the University of Virginia and an Editorial Board Member of this journal, particularly his two prior books that dealt with postcolonial and transnational poetry, A Transnational Poetics, published in 2009 and winner of the Harry Levin Prize for the best book in comparative literary history published in the years 2008 to 2010 ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-04-14T00:00:00-05:00
- Transatlantic Transformations of Romanticism: Aesthetics, Subjectivity and
the Environment by Mark Sandy (review)-
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Abstract: In Transatlantic Transformations of Romanticism, Mark Sandy explores how romantic writers galvanized a succession of rich, multilayered responses among chiefly American writers extending past F. Scott Fitzgerald to Wallace Stevens and Toni Morrison. Each chapter inspects allusions, textual parallels, and “hauntings”—one of Sandy’s guiding concepts for explaining transformation—as these writers conduct a vigorous textual give-and-take focused on his subtitle’s three terms: the epistemic status of the self, changing aesthetic standards for authentic representation, and, finally, the shifting interplay between self and natural world.While Sandy’s fresh insights add resonance to the past century’s cultural dialogue, he ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-04-14T00:00:00-05:00
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