Stevens, Germany, and the Churches

Philip McGowan

doi:10.1353/wsj.2024.a922169

Stevens, Germany, and the Churches

Philip McGowan

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Abstract

Wallace Stevens’s “Credences of Summer” (1947), in particular section IV’s articulation of “the limits of reality,” may be read as significantly German-influenced by connecting two distinct lines of inquiry: the poet’s personal connection to Henry and Barbara Church, and his increased interest, from 1944,in genealogical researches on Pennsylvania. By 1947, Stevens’s engagement with Germany had evolved from his early, romanticized identifications with a native peasantry to engage with post-WWII Germany as a concept of pure imagination.

Original language	English
Article number	1
Pages (from-to)	20-34
Journal	The Wallace Stevens Journal
Volume	48
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1353/wsj.2024.a922169
Publication status	Published - 15 Mar 2024

Keywords

Wallace Stevens
Ephrata
World War II
Conceptual Germanies
Abstraction
Art

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Literature and Literary Theory

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