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Tag: Wallace Stevens

253. (Wallace Stevens)

A student of mine pointed out that “The Emperor of Ice Cream” endorses living in the moment. That, he thought, … More

American Literature, American poetry, modernist poetry, Wallace Stevens

207. (Amy Clampitt)

Amy Clampitt’s “Nothing Stays Put” opens with an allusion to Wordsworth’s “The World is Too Much With Us,” and the … More

American poetry, Amy Clampitt, Elizabeth Bishop, Hopkins, John Clare, Poetry, Romanticism, Self-Conscious, Wallace Stevens, Whitman, Wordsworth

200. (Wallace Stevens)

Stevens’ poetry is the culmination of romantic idealism, and in comprehending its method and ambitions, the words of philosopher Sebastian Rödl … More

Poetry, Romantic Poetry, Romanticism, Sebastian Rödl, Self-Conscious, Wallace Stevens

198. (Robert Browning)

For Keats, the question of whether it is enough to receive this world on its own terms. For Stevens, as … More

History of Science, Kant, Objectivity, Robert Browning, Romanticism, Wallace Stevens

197. (John Keats)

Some have felt with exasperation what Keats may have worried over himself: that his poetry can be attended by the … More

John Keats, Romanticism, Wallace Stevens

152. (Wallace Stevens)

When you start out with a feeling of alienation—from an unspoken, blank, or meaningless past—from a mass of others, or … More

American Literature, American poetry, Marius Bewley, Politics and Poetry, R.P. Blackmur, Wallace Stevens

138. (Elizabeth Bishop)

She is said to be reticent; it is the title and subject of a monograph on her work, and recently … More

American poetry, Elizabeth Bishop, Poetry, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, Whitman

134. (Wallace Stevens)

A friend of mine, the recent election in heart and mind, sent me Wallace Stevens’ poem, “United Dames of America.” … More

modernist poetry, Poetry, Politics and Poetry, Wallace Stevens

71. (Wallace Stevens)

William Empson, whose capacity for appreciation was as broad as any critic’s, could find scant space to admire Wallace Stevens. … More

American poetry, Poetry, Wallace Stevens, William Empson

56. (Stevie Smith)

“Her poems speak with the authority of sadness,” wrote Larkin, who might be said to aspire to the same in … More

Christina G. Rossetti, Christopher Ricks, modern poetry, Philip Larkin, Poetry, Stevie Smith, Wallace Stevens

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