For many years, says Goldfarb (New York U.), she has been pondering the poetry of American Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) and Frenchman Paul Val矇ry (1871-1945), and listening to the music that
unites them. Both find in musical ideas and techniques a language to clarify and execute their principal poetic aims, she argues, Val矇ry to express the fleeting nature of the world in a finite
but regenerative form, and Stevens to create a sense of wholeness or permanence in human experience while remaining true to an ever-changing reality. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation
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