ENGL 310: Modern Poetry
Lecture 21 - Wallace Stevens (cont.). The late poetry of Wallace Stevens is presented and analyzed. Stevens's conception of the poet as reader and the world as a text to be read and translated is considered in "Large Red Man Reading" and "The Poem that Took the Place of a Mountain." The poet's preoccupation with natural cycles and sensory experience is exhibited in "The Plain Sense of Things." Finally, "A Primitive Like an Orb" is interpreted as Stevens's final vision of ceaseless change and transition in the world, in which the poet's verbal play participates. (from oyc.yale.edu)
| Lecture 21 - Wallace Stevens (cont.) |
| Time | Lecture Chapters |
| [00:00:00] | 1. Introduction: Wallace Stevens's Late Poems |
| [00:04:33] | 2. Wallace Stevens Poem: "Large Red Man Reading" |
| [00:16:12] | 3. Wallace Stevens Poem: "The Poem that Took the Place of a Mountain" |
| [00:25:18] | 4. Wallace Stevens Poem: "The Plain Sense of Things" |
| [00:29:37] | 5. Wallace Stevens Poem: "Not Ideas About the Thing but the Thing Itself" |
| [00:37:53] | 6. Wallace Stevens Poem: "A Primitive Like an Orb" |
| References |
| Lecture 21 - Wallace Stevens (cont.) Instructor: Professor Langdon Hammer. Transcript [html]. Audio [mp3]. Download Video [mov]. |
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