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The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar: Essays on Poets and Poetry The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar: Essays on Poets and Poetry by Helen Vendler
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“The war in the poem between the warmth of Keatsian language and the chill of metaphysical analysis means that Stevens has not achieved a style that can embrace both the physical pine and the metaphysical pine.”
― Helen Vendler, The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar: Essays on Poets and Poetry
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