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Leon Surette | Littérature et Arts | McGill-Queen's University Press | Date de parution: 2008 | ISBN-13: 9780773533639 | Couverture: Rigide | Anglais | 416 pages
Leon Surette's study of T. S. Eliot and Wallace Stevens challenges the received view that Stevens' poetry expresses a Humanist world view, and - more surprisingly - documents Eliot's early Humanist phase.
Eliot's poetry is dominated by cultural, religious, and philosophical anxiety, while Stevens' is bright, witty, and playful - and commonly dismissed as superficial. By juxtaposing the two poets' responses in poetry and prose to the same texts and events - Marianne Moore's poetry, the Great War, Humanists and anti-Humanists, the Franco-Mexican Humanist Ramon Fernandez, Pure Poetry, and, finally, the gathering war clouds of the late 1930s - Surette demonstrates the seriousness of Stevens' life-long engagement with the modern dilemma of disbelief and shows that he, like Eliot, rejected the Humanist resolution.
"With a confidence and lucidity that bespeak Surette's rich body of scholarship and experience in the field, The Modern Dilemma sheds valuable light on how the two poets responded to the possibility of committing to the philosophical position of Humanism in the face of loss of faith."
Miranda B. Hickman, McGill University
