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Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was an American modernist poet. ... Poetic criticism of old religion
The "emperor" of ice cream is illustrated through imagery by Stevens as sufficiently ruddy to churn the ice-cream and blend its sugar in order to make the customary funeral treat used in the country. [3] In his book on Stevens, Thomas C. Grey sees the poem as a harsh didactic lesson studying the use of the metaphor of "coldness." Grey states ...
Frank Aristides Doggett (May 4, 1906 – September 9, 2002) was an educator in the Duval County, Florida school system and an independent scholar who was an early authority on the American Modernist poet, Wallace Stevens.
About this poem Stevens wrote that it was "simply an expression of paganism". [3] Helen Vendler in the Cambridge Companion to Wallace Stevens summarized the poem as Stevens's search for "a systematic truth that could replace the Christianity of his churchgoing childhood." For Vendler, the stratagem which Stevens employs in attempting to ...
The Wallace Stevens Journal is an academic journal established in 1977 and the official publication of The Wallace Stevens Society. It covers the works and life of the American modernist poet Wallace Stevens. The journal is published twice a year by the Johns Hopkins University Press.
It can be read as one of his "poems of epistemology", as B. J. Leggett styles it in his Nietzschean reading of Stevens' perspectivism, [2] a minimalistic statement of his interest in the relationship between imagination and the world. The term 'gubbinal' may derive from 'gubbin', slang for a dullard, referring here to someone who takes the ...
The first displays the influence of haiku and orientalism on Stevens, the second evokes the romantic mystery of night, the third is a wry comment about the duality of the human condition, the dream in the fourth bears comparison to Klee and Chagall, the fifth acknowledges the subtlety of nature, and the sixth associates this subtlety with a ...
The Comedian as the Letter C" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, Harmonium (1923). It was one of the few poems first published in that collection and the last written for it. It was one of the few poems first published in that collection and the last written for it.