Proustian closure in Wallace Steven's "The Rock" and Elizabeth Bishop's "Geography III."

26 For consideration of the intimate relationship between Stevens and Bishop, see James Merrill's 1968 interview in Contemporary Literature.

I like the way [Bishop's] whole oeuvre is on the scale of a human life; there is no oracular amplification, she doesn't go about on stilts to make her vision wider. She doesn't need that. She's wise and humane enough as it is. And this is rather what I feel about Stevens. For all the philosophy that intrudes in and between the lines, Stevens's poetry is a body of work that is man-sized. (200)

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