The Polarities of American Aesthetics Made Flesh?
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Pummeling Poets
Stevens: The trouble with you, Robert, is that you write about subjects.
Frost: The trouble with you, Wallace, is that you write about bric-a-brac.
Poetry vs Prose
Stevens impugns Hemingway’s manhood.
Hemingway pugnaciously flattens Stevens.
Gleaned from the May 2, 2016 New Yorker review by Peter Schjeldahl of Paul Mariani's The Whole Harmonium: The Life of Wallace Stevens.
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