ENGL 310: Modern Poetry
Lecture 19 - Wallace Stevens. Wallace Stevens is considered as an unapologetically Romantic poet of imagination. His search for meaning in a universe without religion in "Sunday Morning" is likened to Crane's energetic quest for meaning and symbol. In "The Poems of Our Climate," Stevens's desire to reduce poetry to essential terms, and then his countering resistance to this impulse, are explored. Finally, "The Man on the Dump" is considered as a typically Stevensian search for truth in specifically linguistic terms. (from oyc.yale.edu)
| Lecture 19 - Wallace Stevens |
| Time | Lecture Chapters |
| [00:00:00] | 1. Introduction: Wallace Stevens |
| [00:09:22] | 2. Wallace Stevens Poem: "Sunday Morning" |
| [00:30:27] | 3. Wallace Stevens Poem: "The Poems of Our Climate" |
| [00:38:54] | 4. Wallace Stevens Poem: "The Man on the Dump" |
| References |
| Lecture 19 - Wallace Stevens Instructor: Professor Langdon Hammer. Transcript [html]. Audio [mp3]. Download Video [mov]. |
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