Download e-book for kindle: Secretaries of the Moon: The Letters of Wallace Stevens and by Beverly Coyle,Alan Filreis

By Beverly Coyle,Alan Filreis

ISBN-10: 0822306700

ISBN-13: 9780822306702

The letter from Jose Rodriguez Feo that caused Stevens's poem was once the 3rd in a ten-year correspondence (1944-54) among the poet and the younger Cuban, who speedy turned Stevens's "most intriguing correspondent." the 2 shared a Harvard schooling, either have been fearful to work out Stevens translated for a Cuban viewers, and every had an everlasting admiration for Santayana, whose wisdom of the cultural tensions among the Northern and Southern hemispheres shaped a foundation for the protracted argument among Stevens because the sensible, Protestant father and the passionate Rodriguez Feo. The Cuban's descriptions of his existence on the Villa Olga, of his black-and-white cow Lucera and his mule Pompilio, thrilled Stevens, as did his wide-ranging questions and pronouncements of literary concerns. ignorant of the well known Stevens reticence, Rodriguz Feo elicited a extra casual, playful reaction than Stevens's different correspondents. Formal salutations quickly gave solution to "Dear Antillean," "Dear Wallachio."

Coyle and Filreis current the full extant correspondence among the 2 males. The fifty-one Rodriguez Feo letters and ten of the varied Stevens letters are revealed right here for the 1st time, and the trade among the 2 is strangely entire. The paintings contains a severe advent and entire annotation of the letters.

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