Sunday Morning by Wallace Stevens
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Uploaded by brychar66 on Oct 9, 2007
This is by the very fine American poet Wallace Stevens, 1879-1955. 'Peignoir' as in 'Complacencies of the peignoir' is a woman's light dressing gown. The paintings are by Matisse.
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I just listened to The Waste Land. I came to revisit this as an antidote.
I take it that Eliot recoiled from the modernist situation in horror, while Stevens came along and accepted it in magnificence.
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A perfect reading of this great poem, the beauty of the language is almost overwhelming just to read it, but his voice and tone add even more
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Thank you so much for sharing this.
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A bank clerk? He worked as an account executive at Lloyds
and later as a director of Faber&Faber publishing co.
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Stevens worked as a lawyer for a Hartford, Conn,
insurance firm his whole working life. His colleagues knew
nothing of his career as a poet.
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Thise lines aren't missed out. Perhaps you switched it off early!
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I greatly admire Stevens, but the point about simple language is true of most of the strong poets in English, Shakespeare expempted. In fact, Stevens had the ludicrous notion that English was Gallic at base, and certainly liked to display the peacock's tail of his diction.
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i've almost memorized this poem... i has to be my favorite by far.... since i was in school.
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Is this Stevens himself reading?
justinmjones10 9 months ago
@justinmjones10 Hehe, no it's me! Regards, Charles
brychar66 9 months ago
What's so great about Wallace Stevens also, is the randomness of his greatness.
We're talking about a guy who spent the first half of his life in relative obscurity as an insurance adjuster in Pennsylvania, and then quietly wrote some of the 20th centuries most deeply moving language, so replete with modernity and understated elegance.
Perhaps that's when the mind is best suited to write great lines; when it isn't focused on the greatness of self, but rather the greatness around it.
slitheringinterstate 3 years ago 4
I agree with you entirely. Same applies to Eliot who worked as a bank clerk.
brychar66 3 years ago