Wallace Stevens and the Idealist Tradition

Abrams absolute abstraction accept aesthetic American appear artist assume attitude Babbitt becomes belief Bergson Christian Coleridge Coleridge's concept consciousness creative Crispin Croce distinction divine doctrine dualism élan vital emotional epistemological essay essence example existence experience explains external reality external world fact faculty figure George Santayana Harmonium human I. A. Richards Ibid idealist ideas illusion imagination intellectual interpretation intuition J. V. Cunningham James's Kant Kant's Kermode knowledge later literary Martz matter meaning mental merely metaphysical mind modern criticism modernist mystical nature Necessary Angel notion object passage perception philosophical physical Plato poem poet poet's poetic possible principle problem prose psychology Pure Reason R. P. Blackmur rational realist reference relation religion religious remark romantic romanticism Santayana sense sensible world simply skepticism spiritual stanza Supreme Fiction symbol T. E. Hulme T.S. Eliot theme things thought tion tradition transcendental truth universe unreal Wallace Stevens William James York