Wallace Stevens’ “The Prejudice against the Past”: Poet and Pedant

“The Prejudice against the Past” asks us to consider complex philosophical issues: whether “all history is contemporary” (Brown 165); or if there is a “thingishness in a thing that resists being re...

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The Explicator
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2026-08-14
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https://doi.org/10.1080/00144940.2026.2716196
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Poetry Analysis and Criticism
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Wallace Stevens’ “The Prejudice against the Past”: Poet and Pedant

Clay Daniel
The Explicator
Poetry Analysis and Criticism
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Wallace Stevens’ “The Prejudice against the Past”: Poet and Pedant

Clay Daniel
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“The Prejudice against the Past” asks us to consider complex philosophical issues: whether “all history is contemporary” (Brown 165); or if there is a “thingishness in a thing that resists being re...

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