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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.
"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.
The book features a collection of poems containing also the 1948 Stevens long poem of the same name, whose title refers to the aurora borealis, or the "Northern Lights", in the fall. [1] The book collects 32 Stevens poems written between 1947 and 1950, and was his last collection before his 1954 Collected Poems .
The Wallace Stevens Journal has been published by the Wallace Stevens Society since 1979 [9] and its editor, John N. Serio, has collected some of the journal's essays in The Cambridge Companion to Wallace Stevens. An audiobook of his complete public domain poems was completed by Librivox in 2007.
These are poems predominantly from the first book of poems written by the American poet Wallace Stevens and first published in 1923. The second edition of the book was published a decade later. It is not a full list of his poems.
For Stevens modern poetry lifted the poet and the reader out of the doldrums of daily life into a brilliant if temporary moment of intense life. For the reader to participate in this aesthetic experience, he or she needed to engage actively in making sense out of the poem.
About this poem Stevens wrote that it was "simply an expression of paganism". [3] Helen Vendler in the Cambridge Companion to Wallace Stevens summarized the poem as Stevens's search for "a systematic truth that could replace the Christianity of his churchgoing childhood." For Vendler, the stratagem which Stevens employs in attempting to ...
Stevens began writing the poem in December 1936, not long after his completion of the poetry collection Owl's Clover in the spring of that year. [4] The Man With the Blue Guitar became one of his most successful long poems, [ 4 ] and William Carlos Williams wrote at the time that he considered it one of Stevens's best works.