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 eight session:

Stevens and the Leafless Imagination

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

“The Auroras of Autumn” (page 435)

“Long and Sluggish Lines” (page 552)

“The Plain Sense of Things” (page 530)

“The Course of a Particular” (page 554)

“Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour” (page 555)

“The River of Rivers in Connecticut” (page 564)