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  • On a milder note, P. R. Blackmur observes that "Stevens' obscuracies are due to "the essential impenetrability of words," while Randall Jarrell berates the American poet for his stylistic excesses, which make his longer poems sound like "quasi-philosophical daydreams"...

    --Theodore Sampson, 2000, A Cure of the Mind: The Poetics of Wallace Stevens

    January 28, 2008