Amid an extraordary life's work, Wallace Stevens wrote several dozen poems of lambent bety, unsurpassed morn lerature and exprsg an Amerin idm that took acunt of an ternatnal fluence while addg to the tablished, if relatively nascent, domtic non. Stevens' “Sad Stras of a Gay Waltz” is prized of ten stanzas that, grammatilly, n…
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SAD STRAS OF A GAY WALTZ: A NOVEL
* sad strains of a gay waltz *
384 reviews84 followersFebary 19, 2021Rather than the love story is billed to be, seems to me that Sad Stras of a Gay Waltz is tly about solu and the difficulti human begs enunter makg meangful ntact wh each other. Dr Benedikt Augt Anton Cecil Augt Count Waller von Wallerste, to give him is full name, is, for most of the book, mentally, if not physilly cut off om human society, even as he clumsily tri to reenter after years of effective is a "gay" mathematil physicist, who, although this is never spelled out, appears to be on the tistic spectm while sufferg om prosopagnosia.
SAD STRAS OF A GAY WALTZ
Gay, or homosexual. Stevens’ “Sad Stras of a Gay Waltz” is prized of ten stanzas that, grammatilly, n roughly be analyzed pairs. If the particulars of the poem are downbeat—those “sad stras” of the tle—then ed is a so-lled “gay waltz” that Stevens wr of: this is the song of, the stuff of life, the ntuy of beg and the plicy livg we all share, to the tunels tune of heedls nrotics droolg their petent hymns—or anthems, or waltz, as Stevens would have —to the unfillable chasms si ourselv until, mostly, an artist-creator along to put all to sense.
SAD STRAS OF A GAY WALTZ : A NOVEL
London Review of Books's blog featur a new post by David Bromwich on Wallace Stevens's poem "Sad Stras of a Gay Waltz.
I’ve been thkg about some l of a poem by Wallace Stevens lled ‘Sad Stras of a Gay Waltz’:.