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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)"Sunday Morning" by Wallace Stevens was first published by Harriet Monroe in her magazine Poetry in November 1915. She impaired the quality of the original poem by omitting three stanzas and by rearranging the remaining...
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From: Wallace Stevens: A Celebration[The following excerpt, written on the occasion of Stevens's centenary, reflects on the changing critical response to Stevens and the enduring value of his poetry.] In the centennial year of Wallace Stevens's birth,...
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From:Poetry for Students (Vol. 16. )Wallace Stevens gives hope to late-bloomers everywhere. His first collection of poetry, Harmonium, was published in 1923, when he was forty-four years old. His second collection, Ideas of Order, did not appear until...
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From: Wallace Stevens and the Limits of Reading and Writing[(essay date 2002) In the following essay, Eeckhout outlines the philosophical aspects of Stevens's poetry, focusing on issues of the ultimate limitations to perception and to language.] Wallace Stevens's reputation,...
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From: The Violence Within, The Violence Without: Wallace Stevens and the Emergence of a Revolutionary Poetics[(essay date 2003) In the following essay, Brogan posits that during the middle portion of his career, Stevens became more engaged with respect to socio-political issues and came to practice a form of poetic resistant to...
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From: Contemporary Literature[(essay date spring 2000) In the following essay, Schoening gives an in-depth account of Stevens's theories concerning the connection between poetry and politics.] A generation ago we should have said that the...
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From: Late Stevens: The Final Fiction[(essay date 2005) In the following essay, Leggett suggests the possibility that Stevens's late work, in particular The Rock, enacts Stevens's vision of a supreme fiction in a way that the earlier "Notes to a Supreme...
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From: German Quarterly[(essay date summer 2010) In the following essay, Gosetti-Ferencei gives a comparative reading of the themes of perception, imagination, and transcendence in the poetry of Rilke and Wallace Stevens.] Rainer Maria Rilke...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)Wallace Stevens is a poet who combined a long poetic career with another career as a business executive. The career that concerns us here—that of poet—produced a large body of work that circles around a lifelong...
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From: Kenyon Review[(essay date 1989) In the following review, Helmling contends that Ariel and the Police is a “conflicted” work that reveals Lentricchia’s struggles to come to terms with the nature of the subject. Helmling takes issue...
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From: Aspects of American Poetry[Ellmann is the author of the definitive biography of James Joyce. He has also written widely on early twentieth-century Irish literature, most notably on William Butler Yeats and Oscar Wilde. In the following excerpt,...
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From: Six Modernist Moments in Poetry[(essay date 2006) In the following essay, Young depicts "Sunday Morning" as an attempt by Stevens to formulate a specifically American form of modernism by means of overcoming the strictures of puritanical...
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From: The Binding of Proteus: Perspectives on Myth and the Literary Process
The Fictive and the Real: Myth and Form in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams
[(essay date 1980) In the following essay, originally presented at a colloquium in 1974, Dotterer compares Williams’s long poem, Paterson, with Stevens’s Notes toward a Supreme Fiction (1942). Quoted material in this... -
From: Journal of Modern Literature[(essay date fall 2003) In the following essay, Mikkelsen extensively analyzes references to body type and body image in Stevens's work and relates these to Stevens's image of the model poet and his overall poetic...
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From: Gathered Beneath the Storm: Wallace Stevens, Nature and Community[(essay date 2002) In the following essay, Quinn argues that the prevalence of natural or pastoral settings in Stevens's poetry does not indicate the poet's disconnection from issues of politics and ideology. Rather, for...
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From: Literary Canons and Religious Identity[(essay date 2004) In the following essay, Bird characterizes Stevens's central project and struggle as an attempt to use language to bridge an apparent--but not actual--divide between the mind and the outside world.]...
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From: Southwest Review[(essay date 2000) In the following essay, Mao presents his argument that Stevens is a particularly relevant poet for the close of the millennium.] The question this essay asks is, "What can Wallace Stevens and the end...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 27, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedIn his seminal essay, "The Figure of the Youth as Virile Poet" (1943), Wallace Stevens concludes by affirming the necessity of a model man and writer who retains the essential masculine nature that we propose for one...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedHistoricist critics of modernism characterize modernist claims about abstraction, impersonality, and autonomy as escapist denials of a plausible realism. This essay uses examples from the visual arts--Pissarro, Cezanne,...
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From:Texas Studies in Literature and Language (Vol. 55, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWords are the only melodeon. --Wallace Stevens, "Adagia" (1) In an essay on the joys and frustrations of translating Wallace Stevens, the award-winning Italian translator Massimo Bacigalupo points to a study by...