| Sumario: | Wallace Stevens's lecture "Three Academic Pieces" can be read as a reflection on the place of poetry within the academy as well as the relationship of literary study to so-called harder disciplines such as philosophy and science. Indirectly alluding in the lecture to the dismissiveness towards poetry expressed by A. J. Ayer in Language, Truth and Logic , Stevens proposes poetry's discourse of "resemblance" as a means of reuniting fact and value in a secular culture. The fruits of this line of thinking can be seen in "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven," where a shared poetics of the ordinary stands in place of more specialized conceptions of knowledge, poetic or otherwise.
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