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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 literary scholar Beverly Maeder writing for the Cambridge Companion to Wallace Stevens speaks of the importance the author placed upon linguistic structure in many of his poems. In this instance, Stevens is experimenting with the application of the verb 'to be' in its many forms and conjugations throughout the 13 cantos of the poem.
The Wallace Stevens Journal is an academic journal established in 1977 and the official publication of The Wallace Stevens Society. It covers the works and life of the American modernist poet Wallace Stevens. The journal is published twice a year by the Johns Hopkins University Press.
The poem can be compared to imagist paintings of the period such as Klee's "Blaue Nacht", Klee's shades of blue replaced by Stevens' colors of the night. Stevens adds unsettling elements. The poem unfolds like a little horror show. A fire creates flickering images of the colors of bushes and leaves, which themselves turn in the wind.
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. [5]
Stevens' poem titles are not necessarily a reliable indicator of the meaning of his poems, but Milton Bates suggests that it serves as ironic stage direction, the image of "Shakespear's rude mechanical pressing the delicate keyboard with his thick fingers" expressing the poet's self-deprecation and betraying Stevens's discomfort with the role ...
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"Anecdote of the Jar" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, Harmonium. Wallace Stevens is an important figure in 20th century American poetry. The poem was first published in 1919, it is in the public domain. [1] Wallace Stevens wrote the poem in 1918 when he was in the town of Elizabethton, Tennessee. [citation needed]