"The Theory of Poetry, / As the Life of Poetry": Stevens's Academic Discourse.
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 poetr...
| Published in: | Wallace Stevens Journal Vol. 49; no. 1; pp. 35 - 53 |
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