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The Cambridge Companion to Wallace Stevens Edited by John N Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-61482-5 - The Cambridge Companion to Wallace Stevens Edited by John N. Serio Index More information INDEX Abrams, M. H. 110 Brazeau, Peter 18, 121, 129, 130, 132 Mirror and the Lamp, The 110 Browning, Robert 79 abstract expressionism 165 Burke, Kenneth 110 abstraction 4, 5, 32, 46, 50–54, Burnet, John 12 65–69, 107, 140, 144, 178 Early Greek Philosophy 12 agnosticism 120 Burnshaw, Stanley 38–39, 43, 47 Aiken, Conrad 36 Butler, Judith 111 approaches 2–6 Bynner, Witter 12 Arensberg, Walter 16–17, 166 Byron, Lord (George Gordon) 79, 87 Aristotle 107, 155 Poetics 155 Cazin, Jean Charles 165 Arnold, Matthew 193 Ce´zanne, Paul 16, 164, 170, 173, 176, 178 asceticism 120 Church, Henry 20, 50, 95, 199 Ashbery, John 76, 134 classicism 107, 164, 166, 172–73, 194, 200 Auden, W. H. 169 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 51, 87, Austin, A. Everett (Chick) 166 110–11, 112, 156 avant-garde 16, 37, 149, 166 Cornell, Joseph 166 Corot, Jean-Baptiste Camille 164, 165, 169 Bates, Milton J. 74 Crane, Hart 28, 31, 32 Baudelaire, Charles 36, 153 Bridge, The 31 Les Paradis artificiels 77 Creeley, Robert 76 “L’Invitation au voyage” 36 Critchley, Simon 115–16 belief, see religion Croce, Benedetto 107 Belitt, Ben 41 cubism 165, 166, 168–69, 172, 175, 176 Bell, Graham 170 Cummings, E. E. 150 Benveniste, Emile 161 Bergson, Henri 107 Dali, Salvador 172 Bishop, Elizabeth 76 Dante Alighieri 12, 19, 180 Blackmur, Richard 36 Darwin, Charles 11, 32 Blake, William 87 Autobiography of Charles Darwin, The 32 Blanchot, Maurice 107 Derain, Andre´ 16 Bloom, Harold 62, 73, 113 Derrida, Jacques 106, 162, 200 Bodenheim, Maxwell 38 Descartes, Rene´ 49, 51, 80, 120, 122 Bollingen Prize 1, 21, 62 Dickinson, Emily 133 Bombois, Camille 166 Doolittle, Hilda see H. D. Botticelli, Sandro 126, 174 Dove, Arthur 166 Brancusi, Constantin 16 Duchamp, Marcel 16, 17, 166, 169 Braque, Georges 16, 166 Duncan, Isadora 180 214 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-61482-5 - The Cambridge Companion to Wallace Stevens Edited by John N. Serio Index More information INDEX East, influence of, 12, 168, 169 Heraclitus 67, 107 Einstein, Albert 4–6 Heringman, Bernard 10, 103 Evolution of Physics, The 5 Hitler, Adolf 20 Eliot, T. S. 1, 2, 4, 31, 32, 76, 79–80, 81, Hockney, David 171 83–84, 85, 103, 107, 149, 168 Homer 19, 146 “La Figlia che Piange” 80 Howe, Susan 76, 77 Four Quartets 31, 103, 195 Hughes, Langston 133 “Waste Land, The” 31, 32, 81, 83, 84–85 humanism 12, 171, 193 Emerson, Ralph Waldo 6, 13, 19–20, 51, 59, Husserl, Edmund 112 70, 87, 90, 95, 99, 100, 113, 114 Nature 13 idealism 49, 51–53, 59, 95, 111, see also “Society and Solitude” 100 philosophy (Greek), Plato “Transcendentalist, The” 95 impressionism 164, 167–68 Works 13 Infeld, Leopold 4–6 epicureanism 107, 165 Evolution of Physics, The 5 epistemology 48, 62, 67, 89, 95, Israels, Jozef 165 109–10, 113, 116, 119, 151 James, Henry 105, 113, 168 faith, see religion James, William 11, 49, 76, 113 Fantin-Latour, Henri 165 Pragmatism 113, 114 Faulkner, William 2 Jarrell, Randall 63, 76 fauvism 168 Jowett, Benjamin 12 Fenollosa, Ernest 12 Joyce, James 25 Florida 18 Jung, Carl 182, 188 free verse 80, 81, 149, 150 Freud, Sigmund 17, 25 Kant, Immanuel 12, 49, 59, 110–11, 112 Interpretation of Dreams, The 17 Keats, John 79, 87, 97, 98–99, 100, Frost, Robert 1, 2, 18, 76, 114 133, 138, 156, 184, 185 “Fall of Hyperion: A Dream, The” 98 Gage, Sybil 15 “Ode on a Grecian Urn” 169, 184 Giorgione (Giorgio da Castelfranco) 174 “Ode to a Nightingale” 100 Gleizes, Albert 166 “Ode to Melancholy” 97 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 142 “Sleep and Poetry” 98 Gold Medal of the Poetry Society “To Autumn” 138 of America 62 Kenner, Hugh 76 Goodman, Russell 113 Kermode, Frank 109 Gregory, Horace 42 Keyser, Jay 6 Grey, Thomas 114 Klee, Paul 164 Kreymborg, Alfred 23 Hacking, Ian 19 Hals, Franz 169 La Rochefoucauld, Franc¸ois 145 Hanchak, John 21, 130 Leggett, B. J. 111 Hanchak, Peter Reed 21 Lemercier, Euge`ne Emmanuel 57 H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) 79, 80–81 Lettres d’un soldat 57 Hartford Accident and Indemnity Leopardi, Giacomo 145 Company 18, 19, 121 Pensieri 145 Hartford Courant 1 Life 1 hedonism 120, 135 Linde, Ulf 2 Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich 111 Lorrain, Claude 164, 169, 173 Heidegger, Martin 112, 200 Lovejoy, Arthur 114 Heine, Heinrich 67 “Thirteen Pragmatisms, The” 114 Lyrisches Intermezzo 67 Lowell, Robert 135 Hemingway, Ernest 18, 181 Loy, Mina 180 215 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-61482-5 - The Cambridge Companion to Wallace Stevens Edited by John N. Serio Index More information INDEX Manet, Edouard 168 Poirier, Richard 114 Matisse, Henri 16, 168, 174 postmodernism 194, 200, 201 Merleau-Ponty, Maurice 107 post-romanticism 56, 89 Merrill, James 76 post-structuralism 194, 197, 200 metaphor 27, 30, 51, 55, 56, 57, 68, 69, Pound, Ezra 1, 2, 31, 32, 76–78, 79–80, 78, 79, 100, 151, 154, 155–59, 168, 81–82, 83, 85, 107, 149, 168, 169, 181 173, 176, 177, 178, 194, 195, 196, Cantos, The 31 201, 202–3, 205–6 “Hugh Selwyn Mauberly” 81, 83, 85 Millay, Edna St. Vincent 38 “In a Station of the Metro” 82 Miller, J. Hillis 112 Pisan Cantos, The 77 Milton, John 19, 55, 186 “War Verse” 82, 83 modernism 2, 37–38, 39, 40, 44, 46, 47, 51, Poussin, Nicolas 169, 173 85, 101, 108, 109, 132, 150, 166, 168, Powell, Arthur 18 169, 170, 173, 194, 200 pragmatism 11, 49, 58, 60, 76, 107, 113–14 Monroe, Harriet 23, 36, 37, 40 Pre´vost, Jean 24 Moody, William Vaughn 37 prosody 50, 150 Moore, Marianne 20, 28, 76, 79–80, 83, Pulitzer Prize 22, 62 85, 133 Observations 81, 83 Quinn, Sister M. Bernetta 121 “Reinforcements” 83 Motherwell, Robert 171 religion 9–10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, Mu¨ ller, Max 12–13 22, 28–31, 32, 48–49, 52, 54, 59, 60–61, Science of Thought, The 12 69, 82, 88, 89, 90, 111, 118, 120, 135, 136, Mussolini, Benito 20 155, 160, 164, 182, 184, 186, 193–206 Rodrı´guez Feo, Jose´ 20 National Book Award 21–22, 62 romanticism 5, 34, 56, 87–101, 110, New Masses 38, 39 111, 113, 129, 155, 156, 166, New Yorker 1, 73 169, 174, 194, 195, 200, 204 Nietzsche, Friedrich 52, 111–12 Rousseau, Henri 16 Norton, Charles Eliot 11 Royce, Josiah 11, 49, 104 O’Hara, Frank 77 Santayana, George 11, 16, 49, 52, O’Keeffe, Georgia 166 59, 73, 104, 105, 206 Olson, Charles 76 Interpretations of Poetry and Religion 49 Schelling, Friedrich 12, 13 Pascal, Blaise 145 Schlegel, Friedrich von 111 Perloff, Marjorie 76, 77 Schopenhauer, Arthur 12, 72, 111, 145 Petrarch, Francesco 180 Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit 72 phenomenology 112 Shakespeare, William 19, 133 philosophy Sheeler, Charles 16, 166 analytic 106 Shelley, Percy Bysshe 87, 90, 99, 137 German 107, 110–12 “To Night” 100 Greek 12, 107–9 Simons, Hi 20, 196 see also epicureanism, epistemology, skepticism 32, 74, 107 idealism, phenomenology, Plato, Socrates 107 pragmatism, skepticism, stoicism, solipsism 4, 5, 34, 177 transcendentalism Stein, Gertrude 17, 166 Picabia, Francis 16 Three Lives 17 Picasso, Pablo 16, 47, 164, 170–72, 175 Stella, Joseph 16 Plato 12, 49, 107–9, 193, see also Stevens, Elizabeth 9 idealism, philosophy (Greek) Stevens, Elsie Kachel 14–18, 21, Dialogues 12 23, 125–26, 129, 131, 167, 182 Poetry 37, 40, 47, 82 Stevens, Garrett Barcalow, Jr. 9, 10 216 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-61482-5 - The Cambridge Companion to Wallace Stevens Edited by John N. Serio Index More information INDEX Stevens, Garrett Barcalow, Sr. 9–10, 129 “Comedian as the Letter C, The” 25, Stevens, Holly 15, 18, 19, 21, 118, 125, 34–35, 83–85, 92, 95, 110, 144, 145, 130–31, 132, 145, 193 150, 167, 183, 195 Stevens, John Bergen 9, 10 “Corte`ge for Rosenbloom” 195 Stevens, Margaretha Catharine 9–10, 130 “Countryman, The” 68 Stevens, Mary Katharine 9 “Course of a Particular, The” 110, Stevens, Wallace 123, 146 “Adagia” (prose) 4, 9, 24, 60, 103, “Credences of Summer” 63–65, 66, 74, 94, 124, 131, 145, 157, 194 118, 119, 127–28, 131, 202, 203–4 “Add This to Rhetoric” 153 “Crude Foyer” 94, 99, 157 “Adult Epigram” 203 “Curtains in the House of the “Anecdote of Canna” 27 Metaphysician, The” 38 “Anecdote of Men by the Thousand” 27 “Cy Est Pourtraicte, Madame Ste Ursule, et “Anecdote of the Jar” 27, 33, 156, 169 Les Unze Mille Vierges” 27, 153 (discussed) “Death of a Soldier, The” 120 “Anecdote of the Prince of “Description Without Place” 4, 94, 158, Peacocks” 27, 65 202, 203 “Angel Surrounded by Paysans” “Dezembrum” 150–51 69, 178–79, 188–89 “Dish of Peaches in Russia, A” 198 “Anglais Mort a` Florence” 195 “Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock” 17 “Another Weeping Woman” 183 “Doctor of Geneva, The” 152 “Apostrophe to Vincentine, The” “Dolls” 125 151–52, 174 “Domination of Black” 149 “Arcades of Philadelphia the Past” 198 “Dove in the Belly, The” 5 “Arrival at the Waldorf” 125 “Dutch Graves in Bucks County” 153 “Artificial Populations” 191 “Earthy Anecdote” 27, 152 “Asides on the Oboe” 52, 157 “Effects of Analogy” (essay) 58, 66 “As You Leave the Room” 74–75 “Emperor of Ice-Cream, The” 154, Auroras of Autumn, The 21, 62–63, 65, 182, 195 66, 68, 83, 118, 178, 188, 204 “Esthe´tique du Mal” 94, 119, “Auroras of Autumn, The” 25, 59, 138 (discussed), 188 60, 63–65, 67, 70, 71, 92, “Examination of the Hero in a 100, 122, 143–44, 203–4 Time of War” 58 “Autumn” 12 “Explanation” 25 “Autumn Refrain” 118 “Extracts from Addresses to the Academy “Banal Sojourn” 27, 34, 131 of Fine Ideas” 80, 108, 150 “Bantams in Pine-Woods” 34, “Fabliau of Florida” 27 136 (discussed), 182 “Farewell to Florida” 183, 189 “Bed of Old John Zeller, The” 9, 201 “Farewell Without a Guitar” 191 “Beginning, The” 68 “Figure of the Youth as Virile Poet, The” “Botanist on Alp (No.
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