Question

This poet analyses a passage from Plato’s Phaedrus in his essay “The Noble Rider and the Sound of Words”. A T. J. Clark book depicting “Episodes from a History of Modernism” draws its title from this poet’s line “Farewell to an idea…,” which appears in a poem by him in which a man on a beach observes the Northern Lights. The section titles of a poetic manifesto by this author state that poetry “Must Change,” “Must Give Pleasure” and “Must Be Abstract.” In another poem, this author of The (*) Auroras of Autumn (10[1])and Notes (10[2])Towards a Supreme Fiction requests “let be be the finale of seem” and describes the “horny feet” of a dead woman after the speaker bids the title character to “whip” the “concupiscent curds” of the title food. For 10 points, name this poet whose collection Harmonium includes “The Emperor of Ice-Cream.” ■END■

ANSWER: Wallace Stevens
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Summary

2023 UMN COOT08/19/2023Y3100%0%0%92.33