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ENGL 310: Modern Poetry

Lecture 20 - Wallace Stevens (cont.). Marie Borroff guest-lectures on Wallace Stevens's late seasonal poem, "The Auroras of Autumn." The poem is considered sequentially, beginning with Stevens's mythology of the three serpents in section one and concluding with an examination of the beauty of the world, as Stevens conceives of it, in sections eight through ten. The poet's optimism and fundamental belief in the power of imagination to divest death of its power is repeatedly demonstrated. The poem's final sections are shown to exemplify characteristically Stevensian conceptions of peace and happiness in the face of death. (from oyc.yale.edu)

Lecture 20 - Wallace Stevens (cont.)

Time Lecture Chapters
[00:00:00] 1. Introduction
[00:02:10] 2. Wallace Stevens Poem: "Gubbinal"
[00:06:34] 3. Wallace Stevens Volume: The Auroras of Autumn

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Lecture 20 - Wallace Stevens (cont.)
Instructor: Professor Langdon Hammer. Transcript [html]. Audio [mp3]. Download Video [mov].

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Lecture 01 - Introduction
Lecture 02 - Robert Frost
Lecture 03 - Robert Frost (cont.)
Lecture 04 - William Butler Yeats
Lecture 05 - William Butler Yeats (cont.)
Lecture 06 - William Butler Yeats (cont.)
Lecture 07 - World War I Poetry in England
Lecture 08 - Imagism
Lecture 09 - Ezra Pound
Lecture 10 - T.S. Eliot
Lecture 11 - T.S. Eliot (cont.)
Lecture 12 - T.S. Eliot (cont.)
Lecture 13 - Hart Crane
Lecture 14 - Hart Crane (cont.)
Lecture 15 - Langston Hughes
Lecture 16 - William Carlos Williams
Lecture 17 - Marianne Moore
Lecture 18 - Marianne Moore (cont.)
Lecture 19 - Wallace Stevens
Lecture 20 - Wallace Stevens (cont.)
Lecture 21 - Wallace Stevens (cont.)
Lecture 22 - W. H. Auden
Lecture 23 - W. H. Auden (cont.)
Lecture 24 - Elizabeth Bishop
Lecture 25 - Elizabeth Bishop (cont.)