Wallace Stevens across the Atlantic

Contents......Page 6
List of Illustrations......Page 8
Notes on Contributors......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 12
List of Abbreviations......Page 14
Preface......Page 16
Introduction: The Lights of Norway and All That......Page 20
Part I: Descriptions without Place: Ideas of Europe in Stevens......Page 30
1 ‘The Switzerland of the Mind’: Stevens’ Invention of Europe......Page 32
2 Stevens in Connecticut (and Denmark)......Page 42
3 Stevens’ Europe: Delicate Clinkings and Total Grandeur......Page 60
A. PHILOSOPHICAL CONVERSATIONS......Page 78
4 Stevens and the Crisis of European Philosophy......Page 80
5 ‘Without human meaning’: Stevens, Heidegger and the Foreignness of Poetry......Page 98
6 Early Christianity in Late Stevens......Page 114
7 ‘The strange unlike’: Stevens’ Poetics of Resemblance......Page 126
B. ARTISTIC CONVERSATIONS......Page 138
8 Stevens, Duchamp and the American ‘ism’, 1915–1919......Page 140
9 Picasso, Cézanne and Stevens’ Abstract Engagements......Page 152
10 Music and the Vocal Poetics of Stevens and Valéry......Page 170
Part III: Getting It Straight at the Sorbonne? Stevens’ Afterlife in Europe......Page 182
11 Nicholas Moore, Stevens and the Fortune Press......Page 184
12 A Ghost Never Exorcized: Stevens in the Poetry of Charles Tomlinson......Page 205
13 A Poetics of Ignorance: António Ramos Rosa and Wallace Stevens......Page 223
14 Reading Stevens in Italian......Page 235
Plate section......Page 250
Coda: Ode to a Colossal Sun......Page 258
B......Page 264
F......Page 265
J......Page 266
M......Page 267
P......Page 268
S......Page 269
T......Page 272
Z......Page 273