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Newcomb, John Timberman. "Canonization of Wallace Stevens: A Study of Modernist Evaluative Practice," Duke University, May 1987.
The intricate processes by which Wallace Stevens’ reputation ascended were contingent upon the emergence of modernism as a dominant cultural formation. This study traces that rise both through the history of reader response to Stevens and through the broader cultural forces at work in the formation of modernist canons, particularly the assimilation and institutionalization of early modernist avantgardism which culminated in the rise of New Criticism. First perceived as an obscure “aesthetic” poet, Stevens was at a disadvantage against the early hegemonic forces of modernist canonicity, which valorized accessible vernacular poetry. By 1940, however, a large influential group of younger poet-critics saw him as one of their masters; his canonical potential was by then clearly apparent.
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