By James Longenbach
Wallace Stevens the poet and Wallace Stevens the coverage government: for multiple severe iteration it has appeared as though those males have been unacquainted--that Stevens was once a poet who existed merely within the rarefied global of language. in spite of the fact that, the concept that Stevens lived a double existence, the writer continues, is deceptive. This compelling ebook uncovers what Stevens loved to think about as his "ordinary" lifestyles, a existence during which the calls for of politics, economics, poetry, and daily distractions coexisted, occasionally peacefully and infrequently no longer. interpreting the entire scope of Stevens's occupation (from the student-poet of the 19th century to the award-winning poet of the chilly struggle years), Longenbach unearths that Stevens was once not just conscious of occasions occurring round him, yet frequently encouraged by means of these occasions. the main achievements of Stevens's occupation are proven to coalesce round the significant historic occasions of his lifetime (the nice melancholy and global Wars); yet Longenbach additionally dwells on Stevens's prolonged sessions of poetic silence, exploring the the most important elements of Steven's lifestyles that weren't completely poetic. Longenbach demonstrates that via Stevens's paintings in surety legislation he was once way more in detail accustomed to felony and financial issues than such a lot poets, and he hence proposal deeply concerning the strengths--and, both vital, the limitations--of poetry as a social product and strength
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During his first years in New York, Stevens tried unsuccessfully to find his aesthetic satisfaction by escaping to the country on the weekends, but by the time he had achieved some professional security as well as some aesthetic satisfaction, he had also realized just how close the words vocation and vacation necessarily are. He sent Elsie Moll a newspaper clipping that described an ancient text by Kuo Hsi, "The Noble Features of the Forest and the Stream": "This is not the time," said the sage, "for us to abandon the busy worldly life for one of seclusion in the mountains.
1 was myself the compass of that sea: I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw Or heard or felt came not but from myself;, And there 1 found myself more truly and more strange. There were surely times when Stevens found this aristocratic state of mind attractive, but he knew that it was a pose incompatible with the life of a newspaper reporter or junior lawyer. "The Snow Man" is the alternative vision to the aristocratic Hoon, and together these companion poems of 1921 have often seemed to condense the aesthetic dialectic of Stevens's entire career: discovering and imposing, the poet as finder and the poet as maker, the world within and the world without.
Later, he began his long walks in the countryside as an antidote to urban congestion, and because his vocational life could not yet sustain its vacational pleasures, his weekend sojourns seemed an escape from the drudgery of the work week: "the roads are strewn with purple oak leaves, brown chestnut leaves, and the golden and scarlet leaves of maples. " Stevens was beginning to understand that only his work, as desultory as it was, could make such pleasures possible. That the escape was illusionary was confirmed by his deeper sadness on returning to the city, and Stevens soon realized that he would have to find his pleasures between Monday and Friday.