A Wallace Stevens Readers Guide

Stevens' Foreign Words and Phrases

 

Developed by David Lavery and the students in the summer 2002 Wallace Stevens Seminar.

 

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Stevens' Foreign Words and Phrases

Unless otherwise specified all page numbers refer to

 

Word or Phrase Translation Major Appearances
belle scavoir    

c'est moi

   

chasteté

   

chef d'orchestre

   

Dichtung

   

ding an sich

   
douche campagna   The Well Dressed Man with a Beard
effendi   Esthétique du Mal
exhumo   Esthétique du Mal
forteleze   Chocorua to Its Neighbor

Gemütlichkeit

   

Je tâche, en restant exact, d'etre poète

   
le plus belle   Les Plus Belles Pages
L'Observateur de la Paix   Examination of the Hero in a Time of War
Livre de Toutes Sortes de Fleurs D'Après Nature   Esthétique du Mal
megalfrere   Chocorua to Its Neighbor

mille fiori

   

pensée

   
Poésie Abrutie   Poésie Abrutie

Qui fait fi des joliesses banales

   
Regulae mundi    
Somnambulisma   Somnambulisma

Übermenschlichkeit

   

Wahrheit

   

weltanschauung