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WALLACE STEVENS AND THE ESTHETICS OF WILLIAM HOGARTH

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1985
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William Hogarth in The Analysis of Beauty, first published in 1753, names the pineapple as the almost perfect form. It combines the oval and the cone and, further, is ornamented to achieve a balance between variety and simplicity. Wallace Stevens, always concerned with forms and the metaphors they engender, uses the pineapple as subject of a major poem, "Someone Puts a Pineapple Together," and elsewhere in his work it appears as a forceful image. Hogarth recommends that the artist study his subject from within the form, to achieve a fuller realization of its exterior, a technique often practiced by Stevens, whose thinking may proceed from the center of a given form--or idea--to the outside. Hogarth's stated belief that variety is essential to beauty finds confirmation in the poetry of Stevens, who is known for the diversity of his vision.
Title: WALLACE STEVENS AND THE ESTHETICS OF WILLIAM HOGARTH.
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Name(s): SURBAUGH, PHYLLIS WHITEHEAD.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Pearce, Howard D., Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1985
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 68 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: William Hogarth in The Analysis of Beauty, first published in 1753, names the pineapple as the almost perfect form. It combines the oval and the cone and, further, is ornamented to achieve a balance between variety and simplicity. Wallace Stevens, always concerned with forms and the metaphors they engender, uses the pineapple as subject of a major poem, "Someone Puts a Pineapple Together," and elsewhere in his work it appears as a forceful image. Hogarth recommends that the artist study his subject from within the form, to achieve a fuller realization of its exterior, a technique often practiced by Stevens, whose thinking may proceed from the center of a given form--or idea--to the outside. Hogarth's stated belief that variety is essential to beauty finds confirmation in the poetry of Stevens, who is known for the diversity of his vision.
Identifier: 14236 (digitool), FADT14236 (IID), fau:11046 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1985.
Subject(s): Stevens, Wallace,--1879-1955--Criticism and interpretation
Hogarth, William,--1697-1764--Criticism and interpretation
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