%0 Journal Article
%T Shades of Bliss:  Imagining Heaven in Wallace Stevens and Richard Wilbur
%A William Tate
%J Christianity & Literature
%@ 2056-5666
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0148333118772172
%X Richard Wilbur¡¯s ¡°A Baroque Wall-Fountain in the Villa Sciarra¡± describes fountains which embody different conceptions of human virtue expressed in contrasting religious systems. Wallace Stevens¡¯s ¡°A High-Toned Old Christian Woman¡± similarly contrasts conceptions of virtue with reference to worship-spaces taken as embodying the assumptions of competing religious systems. Stevens¡¯s speaker reaches the somewhat Nietzschean, somewhat Freudian conclusion that religious practice merely projects human desires; differences are relatively meaningless. Wilbur¡¯s speaker, developing Christian theological openness to the other, concludes that the differences between religions make possible a productive complementarity
%K Richard Wilbur
%K Wallace Stevens
%K Nietzsche
%K Freud
%K Sehnsucht
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0148333118772172