Modern Dilemma

Where Eliot''s poetry is dominated by cultural, religious, and philosophical anxiety, Stevens'' is bright, witty, and playful - and commonly dismissed as superficial. Surette demonstrates the seriousness of Stevens'' life-long engagement with the modern dilemma of disbelief, showing that he, like Eliot, rejected the Humanist resolution. Surette proceeds by juxtaposing the two poets'' responses in ...