25 janvier 2022
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Lisa Goldfarb, « Thinking through the Senses: Stevens and Valéry (with Echoes of Proust) », Éditions Rue d’Ulm, ID : 10.4000/books.editionsulm.6727
Wallace Stevens and Paul Valéry are both meditative poets whose critical reputations involve their very cerebral concerns. At the same time that their poetry treats abstract ideas, they often write about the senses and the necessary relationship between sense and thought. It is, in large part, through the senses that we reach the ideas in these poets’ work. My aim in this chapter is to show that the deepest affinity we find in Stevens and Valéry lies in the way they both explore what Stevens ...