Publication Date
12-1970
Advisor(s) - Committee Chair
William McMahon, Frank Steele, Will Fridy
Degree Program
Department of English
Degree Type
Master of Arts
Abstract
This study will deal with such existential elements in Stevens' poetry. The poetry will be treated in three main divisions: the early period of Harmonium (1923); the middle period of The Man With the Blue Guitar (1936), Ideas of Order (1937), and Parts of a World (1942); and the late period of Transport to Summer (1947) and Auroras of Autumn (1950). Two introductory chapters will precede the actual study of the poetry; one is a chapter on existentialism as it is expounded by Sartre and Camus, and the other is a description of the existential bias in Stevens' mind, in terms of the ideas of Sartre and Camus. A brief conclusion will summarize the discoveries made about Stevens as an existential poet.
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | Creative Writing | English Language and Literature | Literature in English, North America | Poetry
Recommended Citation
Satterly, Patsy, "The Existential Elements in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens" (1970). Masters Theses & Specialist Projects. Paper 2809.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2809