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- Title
'Music is feeling, then, not sound': Rhyme in the Development of Wallace Stevens.
- Authors
Baker, Jack
- Abstract
In his search for a language purified from the trivia of personal anxiety, and immune to the weight of public expectation,Wallace Stevens continually recalibrates his approach to rhyme. This essay argues that Stevens' newly incisive approach to this 'traditional' device distinguishes his poetry from the works of his modernist peers. Though Stevens' early poems are wary of the tendency of rhymes to precipitate unwanted closures, in 'The Man with the Blue Guitar' Stevens finally alights on the combination of stylistic economy and measured abstraction that will characterise his late, great, meditative works.
- Subjects
STEVENS, Wallace, 1879-1955; HARMONIUM (Book); IDEA of Order at Key West, The (Poem : Stevens); COLLECTED Poems of Wallace Stevens, The (Book); ROMANTICISM
- Publication
Cambridge Quarterly, 2016, Vol 45, Issue 4, p299
- ISSN
0008-199X
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1093/camqtly/bfw022