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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 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.
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 .
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.
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.
Robert Buttel sees the poem as a specimen of Stevens' "grotesque strain" and wryly observes that "it would be difficult to find a more unique funeral procession in literature". [1] He credits William Carlos Williams for improving the line "Within our bellies, we her chariot." from the original "Within our bellies, as a chariot." [2]
A 1913 photograph of Ezra Pound, one of the most influential modernist poets. The roots of English-language poetic modernism can be traced back to the works of a number of earlier writers, including Walt Whitman, whose long lines approached a type of free verse, the prose poetry of Oscar Wilde, Robert Browning's subversion of the poetic self, Emily Dickinson's compression and the writings of ...
Many literary artists such as Ernest Hemingway and Robert Frost frequently visited Key West and drew inspiration from its environment; among them was Stevens, who met the two men on different occasions. [2] [3] As with many other poems of Stevens', "The Idea of Order at Key West" introduces dissonance between reality and