The Poetic Music of Wallace Stevens Eeckhout Bart
The Poetic Music of Wallace Stevens Eeckhout Bart Wallace Stevens's musicality is so profound that scholars have only begun to grasp his ties to the art of music or the music of his own poetry. Their…
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The Poetic Music of Wallace Stevens Eeckhout Bart
Wallace Stevens's musicality is so profound that scholars have only begun to grasp his ties to the art of music or the music of his own poetry. Their case studies demonstrate how music as a temporal art form may affect a poetic of ephemerality, sensuous experience, and affective intensification. In this study, two long-time specialists present a polyphonic composition in which they pursue various interlocking perspectives.
How did Stevens enact the relation between music and memory? Such a poetic, they argue, invites flexible interpretations that respond to poetry as an art of textual performance. How can we hear his verse as a form of melody-making?
What was specific to his ways of recording birdsong? Have we been missing the latent music of Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler, and Claude Debussy in particular poems? What were the musical poetics he shared with Igor Stravinsky? And how