25 janvier 2022
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Edward Ragg, « The Hartford Bourguignon: French Wines in Stevens’ Writings », Éditions Rue d’Ulm, ID : 10.4000/books.editionsulm.6827
This chapter investigates the persistent attraction to, and even hold on, Wallace Stevens’ imagination that French wines, especially the wines of Burgundy, exerted. It explores Stevens’ engagement with French gastronomy, and French wine specifically, from his early adulthood through to the 1950s when wine—especially Burgundian wines—became the quasi-barometer through which Stevens measured the places, politics, and culture (s) of his time. The special case of “Montrachet-le-Jardin” (1942) is ...