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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2010
What is terribly lacking from life today is the well developed individual, the master of life, or the man who by his mere appearance convinces you that a mastery of life is possible.
the classic hero
And the bourgeois, are different, much.
The classic changed. There have been many.
And there are many bourgeois heroes.
Peter [Lee] lives a good deal out of books. Recently I got a letter from him in which he described the square in Fribourg opposite the post office as full of country people selling butter and vegetables, chickens and eggs […] [H]e described the town itself as full of school girls not only from this country but from various parts of Europe, not to speak of Egypt. He wound up with the explanation: Il faut tenter vivre […] I came across this very expression in something connected with Mallarmé. – I suppose, therefore, that the butter and vegetables and chickens and eggs were all artificial and that the school girls, especially the dark-eyed jewels from Cairo, were just wax stuffed with sawdust.
MASTERY OF LIFE: AT HOME WITH WALLACE STEVENS
Stevens' final decade witnessed a number of achievements as the poet's reputation finally grew. With Transport to Summer, The Auroras of Autumn, The Necessary Angel, two Selected Poems and the long-resisted Collected Poems, Stevens experienced greater magazine publication, increased academic criticism and a raft of honorary degrees and awards.
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