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Publication Sound at an Impasse(2009-03-01) Filreis, AlanThis brief paper presents six reasons why studies of sound in the poetry and poetics of Wallace Stevens have been delayed or suppressed.Publication Loving Literature and Recovering Eighteenth-Century Literary Instrumentalism(2016-02-01) Foy, Anna MPublication Review of Leggett, Wallace Stevens & Poetic Theory(1988-03-01) Filreis, AlanPublication Tests of Poetry(2003-04-01) Filreis, AlanContribution to a forum convened by Robert von Hallberg to consider literary history as a method applied to poetry & poetics.Publication Epic(2016-01-01) Foy, Anna MEighteenth-century epic is often said to have declined after Milton’s accomplishments in Paradise Lost. Because no major eighteenth-century poets wrote sober, “original,” formal verse epics, the period is envisioned as an emblematic instance of generic death. This chapter argues for a reappraisal. After noting recent challenges to this understanding of the genre and the period, I propose an alternate vision of the epic’s Restoration and eighteenth-century development. The period saw not a “decline” of epic but a consequential shift in how the genre was understood: from a notion of epic based on Virgil (epic as a “heroic” handbook for princes) to an understanding of epic centered on Homer (epics as lofty portraits of primitive, distant cultures). This transition informed translations and imitations, sober-spirited poems and mock-heroics, verse and prose pieces, and critical commentaries. Throughout the period, however, the epic remained closely associated with meditations on British “manners.”Publication The Stevens Wars(2009-12-01) Filreis, AlanThis paper surveys the responsiveness of contemporary poets to the writings of Wallace Stevens in the period between 1975 and the present.Publication Review of Forms of Farewell by Charles Berger(1986-03-01) Filreis, AlanPublication Review of "Wallace Stevens across the Atlantic"(2010-01-01) Filreis, AlanReview of a book of essays about Wallace Stevens and Europe, edited by Bart Eeckhout and Edward Ragg, published by Macmillan in 2008.Publication Stevens in the 1930s(2007-01-01) Filreis, AlanAn overview of Wallace Stevens' poetic response to radical poets and ideas in the American 1930s.Publication Selecting Three Poems by W. Stevens: A Roundtable Discussion(2009-10-01) Filreis, AlanThree poems by Stevens indicate a particular aesthetic predicament, expressions of near-cessation: "Mozart, 1935," "The Man with the Blue Guitar," and "The Plain Sense of Things." In the third poem, the imagination re-emerges at precisely the point of its termination. In the second, the poet ventures into pure sound just when an ideological model for the poem collapses. In the first, the poem is the result of a dodge on the matter of others' pain.