Date of Award
1985
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Pearce, Howard D.
Abstract
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.
Extent
68 p.
Recommended Citation
SURBAUGH, PHYLLIS WHITEHEAD, "WALLACE STEVENS AND THE ESTHETICS OF WILLIAM HOGARTH" (1985). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1980 - 1989. 413.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_3/413
Identifier
FADT14236
Comments
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1985.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters