Stevens and Stephens
A Possible Source
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9595374 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rajeev S Patke (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 306 |
| Publication date | 1981-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Literature (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9831 • E-ISSN: 1527-2117 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2926108 |
| OpenAlex | W2322162480 |
| Language | EN |
S UBSTANTIVE correspondences appear to exist between three of Wallace Stevens' poems and a work of travel-literature which he is known to have possessed: John L(loyd) Stephens' Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, 2 vols. (London: John Murray, i84I-43).' three poems are: The Worms at Heaven's Gate (I9I6), The Comedian as the Letter C (I92I-22), and poem III (A lasting visage in a lasting bush) of Notes toward a Supreme Fiction: It Must Give Pleasure (1942). In the earliest of the three Stevens poems the disentombment of Badroulbadour proceeds as follows
| Highly cited | No |
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