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Jul 3, 2017 · Stevens’s poetry continues to be popular, but where should the relative novice, the reader yet to discover the joys of this great twentieth-century modernist poet, begin? This post is designed as an introduction to ten of Wallace Stevens’s greatest poems. 1. ‘The Emperor of Ice-Cream’.
Wallace Stevens - The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets. Wallace Stevens was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, on October 2, 1879.
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.
Wallace Stevens (b. 1879–d. 1955) occupies a place in American literature that is both secure and insecure. He is a poets’ poet and a self-evident staple of the curriculum in English programs. Among modern poetry scholars, he is widely studied both for his aesthetic qualities and his surprising ideas.
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?
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, 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.
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