A dialectical reading of Wallace Stevens' "A High-Toned Old Christian Woman"

Irene Ferreira de Souza Eisenberg

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This description of dialectics is a fitting epigraph for a dialectical reading of any poem by Wallace Stevens. In "Notes  Toward a Supreme Fiction," a later poem, the poet reveals his quest for the "ultimate poem," one that"..."Must be Abstract," "Must Change.," and "Must Give Pleasure," titles of its three parts respectively.


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BLOOM, Harold. Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction: A Commentary. In: BORROFF, Marie. (Ed.). Wallace Stevens. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1963. p. 83.

BORROFF, Marie. (Ed.). Wallace Stevens: The World and the Poet. In: ______. Wallace Stevens. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1963. p. 2-3.

FRYE, D. Northrop. The Realistic Oriole: A Study of Wallace Stevens. In: HOLLANDER, John. Modern Poetry: Essays in Criticism. Ed. John Hollander. New York: Oxford University Press, 1968. p. 274.

JONES, W. T. A History of Western Philosophy: Kant to Wittgenstein and Sartre. Harcourt, New York: Brace & World, Inc. 1969. v. 5, p. 125.

MONROE, Harriet. Sunday Morning. In: ______. Collected Poems. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973. p. 66-70.

STEVENS, Wallace. Imagination as Value. In: ______. The Necessary Angel. New York: Vintage Books, 1951. p. 153.

STEVENS, Wallace. Notes Towards a Supreme Fiction. In: ______. Collected Poems. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973. p. 308-408.

STEVENS, Wallace. Transport to Summer. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, [1951]. p. 392.




DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17851/0101-837X.3.1.55-61

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