Lyric modernism: Wallace Stevens and Hart Crane

2003 ◽  
pp. 49-71
Keyword(s):  
Wallace Stevens ◽  
Hart Crane

Apprentices to Chance Event

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesse Zuba
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Wallace Stevens ◽  
Marianne Moore ◽  
Hart Crane ◽  
Regular Production ◽  
Chance Event ◽  
Century Poetry ◽  
White Buildings ◽  
Nineteenth Century Poetry

This chapter explores representations of career in Harmonium (Wallace Stevens), Observations (Marianne Moore), and White Buildings (Hart Crane) that resist the normative course of development that underpins the professional ideal of regular production. The indeterminacy of representations of career in nineteenth-century poetry is pressed to an extreme in modernist debuts, which are burdened not only with evoking the uncertainty that confirms vocational integrity and the intermittency that signals autonomy from the market, but also with evoking those ideas in new ways. This last challenge, necessitated by the demand that every artistic generation make it new, is made still more daunting by the rise of a culture of professionalism in which writing poetry was apt to appear as childish, effeminate, escapist, elitist, and generally absurd.

Elizabeth Bishop and Audre Lorde: Two Views of ‘Florida’ in the Global South Atlantic

2019 ◽  
pp. 280-293
Author(s):  
Marvin Campbell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sexual Difference ◽  
Southeastern United States ◽  
Virgin Islands ◽  
Wallace Stevens ◽  
Elizabeth Bishop ◽  
Audre Lorde ◽  
Hart Crane ◽  
Key West ◽  
The Caribbean

This chapter investigates how the transnational crossings Elizabeth Bishop launched from the peninsular Florida and its Key into Haiti, Mexico, Aruba, and most famously, Brazil, across North & South, Questions of Travel and Geography III correspond to an analogous geographical arc on the part of Audre Lorde, in which the Southeastern United States, Oaxaca, Mexico, and the Virgin Islands inform an equally fluid and indeed oceanic space from her work of the 1980s onward, when Lorde began spending significant time in the Virgin Islands. As Bishop sought to ‘do more’ with Key West and its environs in than modernist predecessors like Wallace Stevens and Hart Crane by employing this island to make investments in gender, race, nation, and class, Audre Lorde brought racial and sexual difference to the fore of this liminal crossing across national borders and boundaries, hybridizing her own better documented investments in Yoruba myth with a trans-American consciousness lodged squarely in not only the Caribbean and the Southeast, but in Oaxaca, Mexico and the Southwest. Such a remapping reveals two outsider poets who stand at the center of a literary formation where twentieth century American and African-American poetics converge and clash.

Waste and Welter: Derrida's Environment

2010 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy Sellars
Keyword(s):  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Wallace Stevens ◽  
The Earth

At first sight, environmental issues do not seem to feature prominently, if at all, in the work of Jacques Derrida. This essay aims to take a closer look, and thereby to issue a challenge to the burgeoning discipline of eco-criticism. Instead of promoting the Beautiful Soul who is equipped to save the planet by virtue of reading poetry, I argue for the ethical primacy of waste and welter (to recycle a phrase from Wallace Stevens). Jonathan Bate's The Song of the Earth, a powerful but pious work of eco-criticism, ends with a test proposed to the reader; I take the test, which entails reading Stevens's late poem ‘The Planet on the Table’, and fail. Bate's invocation of Martin Heidegger is briefly examined, as are traces of Derrida. What remains of Derrida, I propose, is neither method nor concept but rather remainders that trouble the grounding of environment (Umwelt) as such.

Wallace Stevens et l'héritage mallarméen

Romantisme ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 25 (89) ◽  
pp. 81-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Bessière
Keyword(s):  
Wallace Stevens
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