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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?
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.
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 is one of America’s most respected 20th century poets. He was a master stylist, employing an extraordinary vocabulary and a rigorous precision in crafting his poems. But he was also a philosopher of aesthetics, vigorously exploring the notion of poetry as the supreme...
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?
Wallace Stevens, one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century, lived in Hartford from 1916 until his death, at the age of 75, in 1955. Born ...
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for example, the manuscript of "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction," poems from Parts of a World (1942), an incomplete and unpublished section of "Examination of the Hero in a Time of War," and "Les Plus Belles Pages" with his commentary on it.
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