WALLACE STEVENS: THE TRANSIENT TRANSCENDENTALIST

An eight-week literary seminar through the Bushnell Sage Library in Sheffield, MA.

Because of Covid-19, these sessions occur only on zoom. Please contact the library for the zoom links.

Readings for the fifth session:

Stevens and a New Retreat to the Old Retreat

(Page numbers refer to the new “corrected” text of the THE COLLECTED POEMS OF WALLACE STEVENS, ed. Serio and Beyers, Vintage: 2015).

“Farewell to Florida” (page 125)

“Evening Without Angels” (page 145)

“How to Live. What to Do” (page 133)

“Infanta Marina” (page 8)

“The Idea of Order at Key West” (page 136)

“The American Sublime” (page 139)

“Mozart, 1935” (page 140)

“A Postcard from the Volcano” (page 168)