“Such beauty transforming the dark”: Wallace Stevens’s Project in Frank Ormsby’s Firefl ies
Although Frank Ormsby’s poetry is associated with what Terry Eagleton has called tropes of irony and commitment, his 2009 collection Fireflies inclines, rather surprisingly, towards Wallace Stevens’s idea of imagination as a force impacting reality. Reading Ormsby’s volume against a selection of...
Main Authors: | Wit Pietrzak, Karolina Marzec |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Institute of English Studies
2018-10-01
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Series: | Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies |
Online Access: | http://www.anglica.ia.uw.edu.pl/images/pdf/27-1-articles/Anglica-27-1-8-Pietrzak-Marzec.pdf |
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