Burns, William;
(2025)
"The Theory of Poetry, / As the Life of Poetry": Stevens's Academic Discourse.
Wallace Stevens Journal
, 49
(1)
pp. 35-52.
10.1353/wsj.2025.a955368.
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Abstract
Wallace Stevens's lecture "Three Academic Pieces" can be read as a reflection on the place of poetry within the academy as well as the relationship of literary study to so-called harder disciplines such as philosophy and science. Indirectly alluding in the lecture to the dismissiveness towards poetry expressed by A. J. Ayer in Language, Truth and Logic , Stevens proposes poetry's discourse of "resemblance" as a means of reuniting fact and value in a secular culture. The fruits of this line of thinking can be seen in "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven," where a shared poetics of the ordinary stands in place of more specialized conceptions of knowledge, poetic or otherwise.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | "The Theory of Poetry, / As the Life of Poetry": Stevens's Academic Discourse |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1353/wsj.2025.a955368 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1353/wsj.2025.a955368 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of English Lang and Literature |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10208177 |
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