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Katowice Interdisciplinary and Comparative Studies Literature, Anthropology and Culture Edited by Tadeusz Sławek Volume 2 PETER LANG Frankfurt am Main · Berlin · Bern · Bruxelles · New York · Oxford · Warszawa · Wien Jacek Gutorow Luminous Traversing Wallace Stevens and the American Sublime PETER LANG Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Bibliographic Information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data is available in the internet at http://dnb.d-nb.de. This publication is funded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Poland as part of the National Programme for the Development of the Humanities (project no. 31H 11 0083 80). This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Ministry cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. Cover and Photo Design: © Olaf Glöckler, Atelier Platen, Friedberg ISSN 2191-3277 ISBN 978-3-631-62330-5 © Peter Lang GmbH Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Frankfurt am Main 2012 All rights reserved. All parts of this publication are protected by copyright. Any utilisation outside the strict limits of the copyright law, without the permission of the publisher, is forbidden and liable to prosecution. This applies in particular to reproductions, translations, microfilming, and storage and processing in electronic retrieval systems. www.peterlang.de Table of Contents Acknowledgments.................................................................................................7 Introduction: 118 Westerly Terrace....................................................................11 Chapter One The Pre-Harmonium Years................................................................................19 Chapter Two Harmonium: Songs of Fancy and Imagination...................................................31 Chapter Three Figures of Repression: Stevens in the Thirties...................................................55 Chapter Four Stevens and Major Men: Towards a New Humanism........................................75 Chapter Five Farewell to an Idea: From Transport to Summer to The Auroras of Autumn....109 Chapter Six Building Dwelling Thinking: “An Ordinary Evening in New Haven”.............135 Chapter Seven Towards A New Knowledge Of Reality: “The Rock” And Last Poems..........153 Coda..................................................................................................................175 Works Cited......................................................................................................189 Index.................................................................................................................199 Acknowledgments I would like to thank Sarah Wood for her generous support during my research stay in Trinity College, Oxford (August and September 2002), where the first fragments of this book were written and its overall idea was conceived. I am grateful to Professor Agnieszka Salska and Professor Marek Wilczyński for their uncompromising criticism of what seemed to me the final draft of the text. Also, I would like to thank Piotr Florczyk for reading sections of the book and offer- ing helpful suggestions. Luminous Traversing. Wallace Stevens and the American Sublime was first published in 2007 by the University of Opole Press. In this second edition there is a new introductory chapter and a few revisions here and there. More thanks to Ron Padgett whose anecdote about a trip to Hartford (see Introduction) reawak- ened my interest in the Stevensian sublime. Jacek Gutorow, March 2012 Abbreviations: CP The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens L The Letters of Wallace Stevens NA The Necessary Angel. Essays on Reality and the Imagination OP Opus Posthumous Note: Throughout the book I use the genitive form “Stevens’s.” However, the older form (“Stevens’”) has been preserved in all the cases when such a form has been used by critics. …not balances That we achieve but balances that happen Wallace Stevens, Notes toward a Supreme Fiction
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