25 janvier 2022
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Angus Cleghorn, « Bad Boy for Good: Baudelaire in Stevens and Bishop », Éditions Rue d’Ulm, ID : 10.4000/books.editionsulm.6792
Wallace Stevens’ use of Charles Baudelaire in “Esthétique du Mal” is apparent from the title of this long poem confronting evil and human malice through the Second World War. Scholars such as Raymond Poggenburg have long traced Stevens’ references to Baudelaire. More recently, findings by Milton Bates and Burton Hatlen have focused on the transformative and potentially ethical sublime that Stevens cultivates in the poem. And yet, as Jacek Gutorow reminds us in Luminous Traversing: Wallace Ste...