Wallace Stevens and Francis Parkman
Ryan, Michael George Wallace Stevens and Francis Parkman: The American West and Beyond discovers a previously unacknowledged connection between the poet and the historian. Parkman in his historical narratives served as a source for a variety of poems by Stevens, including some of his more major efforts. Early on, Stevens responds in a playful way to Parkman, later on, Stevens becomes more serious and thoughtful, admitting to the more troubling aspects of Parkman's...