"Presence of an External Master of Knowledge"; the poem also relates to Tennyson's "Ulysses" (1842), whose ageing narrator resolves to "follow knowledge like a sinking star,/Beyond the utmost bound of human thought". The TLS published "Presence of an External Master of Knowledge in [Wallace] Stevens's seventy-fifth year, in 1954. He died the following summer.
Presence of an External Master of Knowledge
from Mick Imlah: The Times Literary Supplement: Poem of the Week: Presence of an External Master of Knowledge
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