"Wrenched Out of Chaos": Stevens, Longinus, and the Relative Sublime.
The sublime remains a contentious concept within Wallace Stevens studies and modernist studies more generally, yet Stevens himself emphasized classical Greece's most sublime aspects. Stevens's comprehension of the classical sublime substantially derives from his familiarity with Longinus and from su...
| Publicado en: | Wallace Stevens Journal Vol. 49; no. 2; pp. 127 - 148 |
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Fall2025
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