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Various schemes for survival are being tried. Though specialized magazines for priests have had their own troubles lately, Father Clifford Stevens of Santa Fe, N. Mex., has recently launched a slick, readable monthly called Schema XIII (after the Vatican II document on the church in the modern world), which tries...
Morse tantalizes with the range of anecdotal material available, but, whether because of his particular critical biases or because of his own selfconsciousness as a scholar, he never delivers. He tells of Stevens' reading one of his poems at a Greenwich Village party in 1914, but instead of reconstructing the...
Morse is good when he is making a case, and some of his writing, particularly the last chapter of the book, is stunning. And his collation of the letters, diaries, and journals with the poems provide some striking insights: the actual events which led to "The Emperor of Ice Cream...
AND THERE seem to be weaknesses in Morse's treatment of the poetry: he never confronts the idea of the moment of poetic vision, nor Stevens' reticence to deal with love in his work; he fails occasionally to bring passion to his reading (particularly when dealing with "Notes Toward A...
Wallace Stevens: Life as Poetry is a poor biography, but it is a fine book on the poet. In fact, with Kermode's Wallace Stevens and J. Hillis Miller's essay in Boets of Reality, it's one of the best books on Stevens around, far and away superior to...