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Wallace Stevens — poeta i eseista amerykański.

Urodził się w Reading z rodziców o ewangelickim, holenderskim i niemieckim pochodzeniu. Jego ojciec, Garrett Barcalow Stevens, był prawnikiem, a matka, z domu Zellers, była nauczycielką. Uczył się w Reading Boys' High School a od 1893 w Harvard College. Następnie studiował na New York Law School. Specjalizował się w prawie ubezpieczeniowym. W 1916 rozpoczął pracę w Towarzystwie Ubezpieczeniowym Hartforda, gdzie pracował do emerytury. Ożenił się z pochodzącą z jego rodzinnego miasta Elsie Kachel Moll, z którą miał córkę Holly . Wallace Stevens debiutował zbiorem wierszy Harmonium , który sprzedał się w 100 egzemplarzach. Dorobek poetycki obejmuje również Ideas Of Order ; Owl's Clover ; The Man with the Blue Guitar ; Parts of the Word ; Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction ; Transport to Summer ; Auroras of Autumn ; Collected Poems ; a także tom szkiców i wykładów uniwersyteckich - The Necessery Angel . Pośmiertnie ukazał się tom wierszy Opus posthumous . Za Collected Poems Stevens otrzymał Nagrodę Pulitzera.

Wiersze Stevensa, kojarzone z późnym romantyzmem, imażyzmem i estetyzmem, uważane są za jedno z arcydzieł poezji XX wieku.

W języku polskim ukazały się dwa zbiory przekładów utworów Stevensa:

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Poecie temu jest też częściowo poświęcony nr 12 "Literatury na Świecie" z 2000 roku.



✵ 2. Październik 1879 – 2. Sierpień 1955
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Wallace Stevens słynne cytaty

„Stevens pragnie oddać kontradykcje i antynomie świadomości, która usiłuje zgłębić świat, ale natyka się na niezliczone języki i nieprzejrzyste znaczenia.”

Wallace Stevens

O poecie
Źródło: Jacek Gutorow, Żółte popołudnie, Wallace Stevens, Biuro Literackie, Wrocław 2008.

„Cisza była składnikiem sensu, częścią myśli:
Danym doskonałości wstępem na stronicę.

A świat pełen spokoju. Prawda w takim świecie,
Gdzie spokój jest jedynym sensem, sama jest

Spokojem, sama latem i wieczorem, sama
Czytelnikiem, schylonym późno, czytającym.”

Wallace Stevens

The quiet was part of the meaning, part of the mind:
The access of perfection to the page.

And the world was calm. The truth in a calm world,
In whitch there is no other meaning, itself

Is calm, itself is summer and night, itself
Is the reader leaning late and reading there. (ang.)
Źródło: The house was quiet and the world was calm w: Samuel French Morse, Poems by Wallace Stevens, Vintage Books, Nowy Jork 1959, s. 126, tłum. Stanisław Barańczak.

„Poezja jest najwyższą fikcją, pani.
Weź prawo moralne i uczyń z niego nawę
A z nawy wybuduj nawiedzone niebo.”

Wallace Stevens

Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame.
Take the moral law and make a nave of it
And from the nave build haunted heaven.
Źródło: A high-toned old christian woman w: Samuel French Morse, Poems by Wallace Stevens, Vintage Books, Nowy Jork 1959, s. 26.

Wallace Stevens: Cytaty po angielsku

“I was myself the compass of that sea:
I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw
Or heard or felt came not but from myself;
And there I found myself more truly and more strange.”

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“It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.”

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“Children picking up our bones
Will never know that these were once
As quick as foxes on the hill;”

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Źródło: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

“Out of this same light, out of the central mind,
We make a dwelling in the evening air,
In which being there together is enough.”

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"Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour"
Collected Poems (1954)
Wariant: We make a dwelling in the evening air,
In which being there together is enough.
Kontekst: We say God and the imagination are one...
How high that highest candle lights the dark.
Out of this same light, out of the central mind,
We make a dwelling in the evening air,
In which being there together is enough.

“I know noble accents
And lucid, inescapable rhythms;
But I know, too,
That the blackbird is involved
In what I know.”

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Wallace Stevens książka Harmonium

"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
Harmonium (1923)

“I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me.”

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Źródło: The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination

“They married well because the marriage-place
Was what they loved. It was neither heaven nor hell.
They were love’s characters come face to face.”

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Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure

“The right, uplifted foreleg of the horse
Suggested that, at the final funeral,
The music halted and the horse stood still.”

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Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Change

“Our own time, and by this I mean the last two or three generations, including our own, can be summed up in a way that brings into unity an immense number of details by saying of it that it is a time in which the search for the supreme truth has been a search in reality or through reality or even a search for some supremely acceptable fiction.”

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The Necessary Angel (1951), Imagination as Value

“O thin men of Haddam,
Why do you imagine golden birds?
Do you not see how the blackbird
Walks around the feet
Of the women about you?”

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Wallace Stevens książka Harmonium

"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
Harmonium (1923)

“A candle is enough to light the world.
It makes it clear. Even at noon
It glistens in essential dark.
At night, it lights the fruit and wine,
The book and bread, things as they are…”

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The Man With the Blue Guitar (1937)

“Clothe me entire in the final filament,
So that I tremble with such love so known
And myself am precious for your perfecting.”

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Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Change

“Perhaps,
The man-hero is not the exceptional monster,
But he that of repetition is most master.”

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Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure

“A. A violent order is disorder; and
B. A great disorder is an order. These
Two things are one.”

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"Connoisseur of Chaos"
Parts of a World (1942)

“At the earliest ending of winter,
In March, a scrawny cry from outside
Seemed like a sound in his mind.
He knew that he heard it,
A bird's cry, at daylight or before,
In the early March wind.”

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"Not Ideas About The Thing But The Thing Itself"
Collected Poems (1954)

“And the color, the overcast blue
Of the air, in which the blue guitar
Is a form, described but difficult,
And I am merely a shadow hunched
Above the arrowy, still string,
The maker of a thing yet to be made;
The color like a thought that grows
Out of a mood, the tragic robe
Of the actor, half his gesture, half
His speech, the dress of his meaning, silk
Sodden with his melancholy words,
The weather of his stage, himself.”

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The Man With the Blue Guitar (1937)

“Twenty men crossing a bridge,
Into a village,
Are
Twenty men crossing a bridge
Into a village.”

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Wallace Stevens książka Harmonium

"Metaphors of a Magnifico"
Harmonium (1923)

“He might take habit, whether from wave or phrase,

Or power of the wave, or deepened speech,
Or a leaner being, moving in on him,
Of greater aptitude and apprehension,

As if the waves at last were never broken,
As if the language suddenly, with ease,
Said things it had laboriously spoken.”

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Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract

“There is a month, a year, there is a time
In which majesty is a mirror of the self:
I have not but I am and as I am, I am.”

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Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure

“Gloomy grammarians in golden gowns,
Meekly you keep the mortal rendezvous,
Eliciting the still sustaining pomps
Of speech which are like music so profound
They seem an exaltation without sound.”

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"On the Manner of Addressing Clouds"
Harmonium (1923)

“A grandiose subject is not an assurance of a grandiose effect but, most likely, of the opposite.”

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Opus Posthumous (1955), Adagia

“After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life’s redemption.”

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Opus Posthumous (1955)

“There was such idiot minstrelsy in rain,
So many clappers going without bells,
That these bethous compose a heavenly gong. One voice repeating, one tireless chorister,
The phrases of a single phrase, ke-ke,
A single text, granite monotony”

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Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Change

“The poem, through candor, brings back a power again
That gives a candid kind to everything.”

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Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract

“Red-in-red repetitions never going
Away, a little rusty, a little rouged,
A little roughened and ruder, a crownThe eye could not escape, a red renown
Blowing itself upon the tedious ear.”

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Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure

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