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Wallace Stevens. 1879 –. 1955. Read poems by this poet. Wallace Stevens was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, on October 2, 1879. He attended Harvard University as an undergraduate from 1897 to 1900. He planned to travel to Paris and work as a writer, but, after working briefly as a reporter for the New York Herald Times, he decided to study law.
Jul 3, 2017 · This post is designed as an introduction to ten of Wallace Stevens’s greatest poems. 1. ‘ The Emperor of Ice-Cream ’. ‘The Emperor of Ice-Cream’ may well qualify for the accolade of ‘most baffling poem of the entire twentieth century’. Who, or what, is the Emperor of Ice-Cream?
Apr 25, 2016 · Paul Mariani’s excellent new book, “The Whole Harmonium: The Life of Wallace Stevens” (Simon & Schuster), is a thrilling story of a mind, which emerges from a dispiriting story of a man. It ...
Wallace Stevens ’s “ Sunday Morning ” (1915) is a lofty poetic meditation—almost a philosophical discourse—rooted in a few basic questions: what happens to us when we die? Can we believe seriously in an afterlife? If we can’t, what comfort can we take in the only life we get?
An insurance man became one of the most influential poets of 20th-century America. By Benjamin Voigt. Now regarded as a towering figure of modern verse, Wallace Stevens was probably better known as an insurance man for much of his adult life.
Rare Materials. Finding Aid:Wallace Stevens Papers. Includes poems, essays, addresses, and correspondence, for example, the manuscript of "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction," poems from Parts of a World (1942), an incomplete and unpublished section of "Examination of the Hero in a Time of War," and "Les Plus Belles Pages" with his commentary on it.
May 14, 2018 · American poet Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) was a virtuoso of language, a master of rhyme and verbal music, of gay and thoughtful rhythms, and of precise and exotic diction. Wallace Stevens was a successful lawyer and businessman, as well as an important poet. But too much has been made of the combination of esthete and businessman in him.
