STEVENS ASSERTSthat there is a universal poetry, of which literary poetry and painting are manifestations. Art and composition are one; poetry and painting alike create through composition. Where the poet does his job by virtue of an effort of the mind he is in rapport with the painter, who does his job with respect to the problems of form and color 000. Comparing the prose of Proust and the paintings of Villon he finds that these works were deliciae of the spirit as distinguished from delectationes of the senses, for one found in them both the labor of calculation, the appetite for perfection. Stevens speculates that it may be that we are dealing with something that has no significance, something that is the result of imitation 000. He quotes De Quincy, distinguishing between the poet and the painter as between two imitators, one moral, the other physical, and he suggests, There are imitations within imitations and the relations between poetry and painting may present nothing more.

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