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“A Sort of Buoy”: Stevens, Plato, and Benjamin Jowett 《一种浮标》:史蒂文斯、柏拉图和本杰明·乔伊特

WALLACE STEVENS JOURNAL Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/wsj.2023.a910917

Jonathan Ivry

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Harmonium through the Years 经年累月的风琴

WALLACE STEVENS JOURNAL Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/wsj.2023.a910914

Lisa Goldfarb

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News and Comments 新闻及评论

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WALLACE STEVENS JOURNAL Pub Date : 2022-11-03 DOI: 10.1353/wsj.2022.0027

Bart Eeckhout, Glen MacLeod

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Window-Gazing and World-Making in Stevens and Robert Creeley 史蒂文斯与罗伯特·克里利的《观景与造世界

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WALLACE STEVENS JOURNAL Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1353/wsj.2022.0023

Thomas Gould

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“The World in a Verse”: Stevens, World History, and Global Modernisms “诗歌中的世界”：史蒂文斯、世界历史与全球现代主义

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WALLACE STEVENS JOURNAL Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1353/wsj.2022.0020

Gül Bilge Han

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In Memoriam James Longenbach (1959–2022) 纪念詹姆斯·朗根巴赫(1959-2022)