Lectures (Video)
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Robert Frost
- 3. Robert Frost (cont)
- 4. William Butler Yeats
- 5. William Butler Yeats (cont)
- 6. William Butler Yeats (cont) III
- 7. World War I Poetry in England
- 8. Imagism
- 9. Ezra Pound
- 10. T. S. Eliot
- 11. T. S. Eliot (cont)
- 12. T. S. Eliot (cont) III
- 13. Hart Crane
- 14. Hart Crane (cont)
- 15. Langston Hughes
- 16. William Carlos Williams
- 17. Marianne Moore
- 18. Marianne Moore (cont)
- 19. Wallace Stevens
- 20. Wallace Stevens (cont)
- 21. Wallace Stevens (cont) III
- 22. W. H. Auden
- 23. W. H. Auden (cont)
- 24. Elizabeth Bishop
- 25. Elizabeth Bishop (cont)
Modern Poetry - Lecture 21
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Lecture 21 - Wallace Stevens (cont) III
The late poetry of Wallace Stevens is presented and analyzed. Stevens's conception of the poet as reader and the world as a text to be read and translated is considered in "Large Red Man Reading" and "The Poem that Took the Place of a Mountain." The poet's preoccupation with natural cycles and sensory experience is exhibited in "The Plain Sense of Things." Finally, "A Primitive Like an Orb" is interpreted as Stevens's final vision of ceaseless change and transition in the world, in which the poet's verbal play participates.
Prof. Langdon Hammer
Modern Poetry, Spring 2007 (Yale University: Open Yale) http://oyc.yale.edu Date accessed: 2009-11-08 License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA |
