I gave up looking for this documentary years ago, and here it is. I saw it so long ago I wasn't even sure if it was about Wallace Stevens. I hadn't developed an interest in poetry at that point. I just liked this particular documentary as a kid. So I wasn't sure if I was literally remembering a documentary about Wallace Stevens or confabulating that it was about him and not someone else. 😂🎉❤
One of the sponsors cited in the beginning was the Hartford insurance company, where I believe Stevens was vice president of the company in his lifetime. Ironic!
This video taught me that George Santayana deeply influenced Stevens when he was at Harvard. I also discovered Stevens thanks to a handful of his poems reprinted in Oscar Williams anthologies.
I envy you. I was an undergrad student in the midseventies to the end of the decade when most of these scholar critics were writing at the peak of their careers.
The pre-eminent example of a successful American business executive who was a major author on the side. Two other examples of such pairings in other domains include Charles Ives the composer and Benjamin Lee Whorff in linguistics and anthropology.
One day I’m going to make the same walk from the former Stevens home to the location of where he used to work. Hopefully, I will be equally inspired along the way.
A tormented atheist, an ambivalent conformist? Art stands in for religion; to replace it or to keep the door open? Do we miss it because we belong to it? 🤔(from Green ire, UK) 🌈🦉
I gave up looking for this documentary years ago, and here it is.
I saw it so long ago I wasn't even sure if it was about Wallace Stevens.
I hadn't developed an interest in poetry at that point. I just liked this particular documentary as a kid.
So I wasn't sure if I was literally remembering a documentary about Wallace Stevens or confabulating that it was about him and not someone else. 😂🎉❤
First saw this great documentary when it first broadcast. I love this stuff.
same, Annenberg put up the money from his T.V. Guide
A great poet! 😎
"The apparent appearances of things", what a line Mr. Bloom. Great video about a great poet. The blackbird will be always around.
My favorite poem is Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour. I love this poem! It’s my prayer. It’s my life.
I remember this series when it first came out in the mid-eighties; how radical it was considered.
This is great. Saw this when it came out. Thanks a mil.
This is brilliant. Thanks for uploading.
This documentary was part of a series of great American poets. Harold Bloom looks so young.
Just discovered this channel an hour ago. Thank you.
Vendler was so young back then, but invariably eloquent and insightful!
One of the sponsors cited in the beginning was the Hartford insurance company, where I believe Stevens was vice president of the company in his lifetime. Ironic!
Probably not a coincidence
This video taught me that George Santayana deeply influenced Stevens when he was at Harvard.
I also discovered Stevens thanks to a handful of his poems reprinted in Oscar Williams anthologies.
thank you for this
Singing most of the poems is the unmistakeable voice of James Merrill, who also appears in the documentary.
Oh, so excited! Just started
Thank you
More documentaries yay
Professor Bloom was my guide through Steven's and many other poets.
I envy you. I was an undergrad student in the midseventies to the end of the decade when most of these scholar critics were writing at the peak of their careers.
Harold Bloom is so cool, it’s beautiful
The pre-eminent example of a successful American business executive who was a major author on the side. Two other examples of such pairings in other domains include Charles Ives the composer and Benjamin Lee Whorff in linguistics and anthropology.
First was my favorite American novelist, now one of my favorite American poets! Thank you.
Are you sure you don't mean Wallace Stegner? I adore his novels, but I don't think Stevens wrote any that I can find.
@@kimnormanbooks No, the previous video was about my favorite novelist, followed by the Stevens documentary.
I also love Stegner's fiction!
One day I’m going to make the same walk from the former Stevens home to the location of where he used to work. Hopefully, I will be equally inspired along the way.
I guess you missed all that stuff in his poems about subjectivity haha
@ you can be inspired in many different ways, dumass.
Im trying to find the video of this dudes doppelganger falling down the stairs
One of the most important modern poets.
An opinion
Duh.@@TheVeek192
A tormented atheist, an ambivalent conformist? Art stands in for religion; to replace it or to keep the door open? Do we miss it because we belong to it? 🤔(from Green ire, UK) 🌈🦉
Wherewithal.
A racist
Nobody cares.
@@UpperCrustthe3rd of course not