Poetic Music of Wallace Stevens

Bart Eeckhout is Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, and has been Editor of The Wallace Stevens Journal since 2011. His books include Wallace Stevens and the Limits of Reading and Writing (2002), five co-edited volumes on Stevens, and twelve co-edited thematic issues of The Wallace Stevens Journal. Most recently he co-edited The New Wallace Stevens Studies (2021). Eeckhout is a Member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts.Lisa Goldfarb is Professor at New York University’s Gallatin School, USA, President of The Wallace Stevens Society, and Associate Editor of The Wallace Stevens Journal. She is the author of The Figure Concealed: Wallace Stevens, Music, and Valéryan Echoes (2011) and Unexpected Affinities: Modern American Poetry and Symbolist Poetics (2018), as well as co-editor of several editedcollections on Stevens and special issues of The Wallace Stevens Journal. She has recently contributed a chapter, “Music of the Sea: Elizabeth Bishop and Symbolist Poetics,” to Elizabeth Bishop and the Music of Literature (Palgrave 2019).

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Reflections on Musicking Stevens.- Chapter 2: The Enigmatic Relation between Music and Memory- Chapter 3: The Enigmatic Relation between Music and Memory.- Chapter 4: The Lifelong Lures of Birdsong.- Chapter 5: The Vibrations of Latent Music: Juxtaposing Stevens with Strauss, Mahler, Hindemith, and Debussy.- Chapter 6: Shared Aspects of a Musical Poetics: Juxtaposing Stevens with Stravinsky.- Chapter 7: Learning from Ned Rorem’s Last Poems of Wallace Stevens.