Syllabus
Introduction 2/10
ARR. MALEŠICE 9/10
::::: Zdeněk Vančura, Afterword to Muž s modrou kytarou ::::: Jan Zábrana, selected entries from Celý život (246–47, 403–04, 865) stevens poems
::::: The Snow Man ::::: Domination of Black ::::: Anecdote of the Jar ::::: The House Was Quite and the World Was Calm ::::: Dry Loaf
A PARENT IN THE FRENCH SENSE 16/10
Paul Valéry
::::: Le Cimetière marin ::::: Palme ::::: La Jeune Parque (1st 4 sections, beginning, «Qui pleure là», «Quel repli de désirs», «Va! je n’ai pas plus des besoins», «Mais je tremblais») (French original of La Jeune Parque in Elliot translation)
Valéry translated
::::: Derek Mahon, The Seaside Cemetery ::::: James Merrill, Palm ::::: Josef Palivec, Palma, Mladá parka, Hřbitov u moře ::::: Bohuslav Reynek, Hřbitov u moře ::::: Alistair Elliot, 1st 4 sections of La Jeune Parque
LIGHT FALL 23/10 stevens poem
::::: The Auroras of Autumn
ROMANTIC 30/10
::::: Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mont Blanc ::::: William Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey ::::: John Keats, Ode on Melancholy stevens poems
::::: The Idea of Order at Key West ::::: The American Sublime ::::: Sunday Morning :::::Sailing After Lunch
HAMMER 6/11
::::: Friedrich Nietzsche, The Twilight of the Idols, or, How to Philosophize with a Hammer
GOD 13/11 stevens poems
::::: The Latest Freed Man ::::: Evening without Angels stevens essay
::::: Two or Three Ideas
GROUND 20/11
::::: Frank Kermode, Wallace Stevens: Dwelling Poetically in Connecticut, from An Appetite for Poetry ::::: Martin Heidegger, Building Dwelling Thinking stevens poems
::::: Of Mere Being ::::: A Primitive Like an Orb
WE ARE EXPANSIVE 27/11
::::: Marvin Campbell, Stevens and Race: Like Decorations in a Nigger Cemetery Revisited ::::: Black Lives Matter, “What We Believe” stevens poem
::::: Like Decorations in a Nigger Cemetery
EDIFICE 4/12 stevens poem
::::: Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction
NATIONALIZED 11/12
::::: Roy Harvey Pearce, The Continuity of American Poetry, Afterword ::::: Helen Vendler, Wallace Stevens as an American Poet [video] stevens poems
::::: Bantams in Pinewoods ::::: The Rock ::::: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird ::::: Esthétique du Mal (XV)
PLANET 18/12
::::: Lee Jenkins, Wallace Stevens and World Literature ::::: Jahan Ramazani, Poetry in a Global Age, ch. 7 stevens poem
::::: The Planet on the Table