The Cambridge Companion to Wallace StevensJohn N. Serio Cambridge University Press, 2007年1月18日 - 220页 Wallace Stevens is a major American poet and a central figure in modernist studies and twentieth-century poetry. This Companion introduces students to his work. An international team of distinguished contributors presents a unified picture of Stevens' poetic achievement. The Introduction explains why Stevens is among the world's great poets and offers specific guidance on how to read and appreciate his poetry. A brief biographical sketch anchors Stevens in the real world and illuminates important personal and intellectual influences. The essays following chart Stevens' poetic career and his affinities with both earlier and contemporary writers, artists, and philosophers. Other essays introduce students to the peculiarity and distinctiveness of Stevens' voice and style. They explain prominent themes in his work and explore the nuances of his aesthetic theory. With a detailed chronology and a guide to further reading, this Companion provides all the information a student or scholar of Stevens will need. |
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第 2 节 | 37 |
第 3 节 | 48 |
第 4 节 | 62 |
第 5 节 | 76 |
第 6 节 | 87 |
第 7 节 | 103 |
第 8 节 | 118 |
第 9 节 | 133 |
第 10 节 | 149 |
第 11 节 | 164 |
第 12 节 | 180 |
第 13 节 | 193 |
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第81页 - And, nothing himself, beholds Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.
第98页 - The lily and the snow; and beyond these I must not think now, though I saw that face — But for her eyes I should have fled away. They held me back, with a benignant light, Soft mitigated by divinest lids...
第108页 - Begin, ephebe, by perceiving the idea Of this invention, this invented world, The inconceivable idea of the sun. You must become an ignorant man again And see the sun again with an ignorant eye And see it clearly in the idea of it.
第97页 - The Bright one in the highest Is brother of the Dark one in the lowest, And Bright and Dark have sworn that I, the child Of thee, the great Earth-Mother, thee, the Power That lifts her buried life from gloom to bloom, Should be for ever and for evermore The Bride of Darkness.
第11页 - Religion, therefore, as I now ask you arbitrarily to take it, shall mean for us the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine.
第95页 - Idealists ; the first class founded on experience, the second on consciousness ; the first class beginning to think from the data of the senses, the second class perceive that the senses are not final, and say the senses give us representations of things, but what are the things themselves, they cannot tell.
第79页 - The greenhouse never so badly needed paint. The chimney is fifty years old and slants to one side. A fantastic effort has failed, a repetition In a repetitiousness of men and flies. Yet the absence of the imagination had Itself to be imagined. The great pond, The plain sense of it, without reflections, leaves, Mud, water like dirty glass, expressing silence Of a sort, silence of a rat come out to see...
第56页 - Modern reality is a reality of decreation, in which our revelations are not the revelations of belief, but the precious portents of our own powers.
第34页 - Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods And mountains; and of all that we behold From this green earth; of all the mighty world Of eye and ear, both what they half create, And what perceive...