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Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was an American modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1955 for his Collected Poems .
Harmonium is a book of poetry by American poet Wallace Stevens. His first book at the age of forty-four, it was published in 1923 by Knopf in an edition of 1500 copies. This collection comprises 85 poems, ranging in length from just a few lines ("Life Is Motion") to several hundred ("The Comedian as the Letter C") (see the footnotes [1] for the ...
"The Snow Man" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, Harmonium, first published in the October 1921 issue of the journal Poetry. Overview. Sometimes classified as one of Stevens' "poems of epistemology", it can be read as an expression of the naturalistic skepticism that he absorbed from his friend and mentor George Santayana.
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird. " Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird " is a poem from Wallace Stevens 's first book of poetry, Harmonium. The poem consists of thirteen short, separate sections, each of which mentions blackbirds in some way. Although inspired by haiku, none of the sections meets the traditional definition of haiku.
The Idea of Order at Key West. " The Idea of Order at Key West " is a poem written in 1934 by modernist poet Wallace Stevens. It is one of many poems included in his book, Ideas of Order. It was also included in The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. [1]
Sunday morning. " Sunday Morning " is a poem from Wallace Stevens' first book of poetry, Harmonium. Published in part in the November 1915 issue of Poetry, then in full in 1923 in Harmonium, it is now in the public domain. The first published version can be read at the Poetry web site: [1] The literary critic Yvor Winters considered "Sunday ...
Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock. " Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock " is a poem from Wallace Stevens 's first book of poetry, Harmonium. First published in 1915, it is in the public domain. [1] Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock. The houses are haunted. By white night-gowns.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream. " The Emperor of Ice-Cream " is a poem from Wallace Stevens 's first collection of poetry, Harmonium (1923). Stevens' biographer, Paul Mariani, identifies the poem as one of Stevens' personal favorites from the Harmonium collection. [1] The poem "wears a deliberately commonplace costume", he wrote ...