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those astral and Shelleyan lights that our poetic tradition throws upon
us, adding nothing to our reality but themselves, and yet reimagining
our lives in that addition. Wallace Stevens, commenting in a letter on
one of his
O'.vn
poems, concludes the matter as I would have it concluded:
He writes:
The astral and Shelleyan lights are not going
to
alter the struc–
ture of nature. Apples will always be apples, and whoever is a
ploughman hereafter will be what the ploughman has always
been. For all that, the astral and the Shelleya n will have trans–
formed the world.
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