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- Title
The Meaning of Wallace Stevens' Two Themes.
- Authors
Eder, Doris L.
- Abstract
Poetry criticism is presented on the themes of imagination and reality in the poetry and poetics of poet Wallace Stevens. The roles of imagination and reality in Stevens' life as a poet are examined alongside why poetry becomes a transaction between the two themes. Other topics addressed include the conflict between imagination and reality, their duality and paradox, and the synonymy between reality and poetry. Stevens comments on the practice of belief in the poem "Sunday Morning." The author notes Stevens' celebration of nothing.
- Subjects
STEVENS, Wallace, 1879-1955; LITERARY criticism; POETRY (Literary form); THEMES in poetry; REALITY in literature; IMAGINATION in literature; SUNDAY Morning (Poem : Stevens); POETICS
- Publication
Critical Quarterly, 1969, Vol 11, Issue 2, p181
- ISSN
0011-1562
- Publication type
Poetry Review
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-8705.1969.tb02017.x