Twentieth Century Literature, June 22nd, 1993
An examination of the influence of place on the poetry of Wallace Stevens is presented. Stevens fuses reality and imagination in his use of the Connecticut landscape as aesthetic inspiration. However, the landscape prompts shades and atmosphere rather than elaborate description. For example, the ordinaryness of the Connecticut landscape provides a parallel to the plain language in 'The Rock' period. "Spring in Connecticut is just as wild as spring in Persia," Wallace Stevens once wrote in a fit of exuberance (Letters 679). Though disappointed that the spring of 1950 wasn't as bright as he had...
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