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The Imagist poet and critic John Gould Fletcher wrote in 1923 that because of his honesty Stevens stands "head and shoulders" above the internationally famous aesthetes like Eliot, the Sitwells, and Valéry. He defended Stevens' "obscurity" as deriving from "a wealth of meaning and allusion". [15]
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.
Thomas Wood Stevens (born Daysville, Illinois, January 26, 1880; died Tucson, Arizona, January 29, 1942) was an American artist, poet, writer, and theatre director. He is perhaps best known for creating the first American degree-granting college theatre department.
From then until 1920 he only made prints sporadically and on commission, mostly by friends of his, such as the Poems by André Salmon (1905), the Saint Matorel by Max Jacob (109–1910)—already in cubist style—and The Siege of Jerusalem, also by Jacob (1914). In 1922 he produced a series of Bathers, published by Marcel Guiat.
Nikos Engonopoulos (1907–1985) - Greek poet and painter; David Gascoyne (1916–2001) - English poet and translator; Enrique Gómez Correa (1915–1995) - Chilean poet, lawyer and diplomat; Andrew Joron – American poet, three-time winner of the Rhysling Award; George Kalamaras - American poet and professor, former poet laureate of Indiana
Oil on canvas. 116.8 x 91.4 cm. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Kindred Spirits (1849) is a painting by Asher Brown Durand , a member of the Hudson River School of painters. It depicts the painter Thomas Cole , who had died in 1848, and his friend, the poet William Cullen Bryant , in the Catskill Mountains .
One of the Belgian art critics of that time Camille Lemonnier said about Toussaint, that he was "one of the painters that broadened the horizon of the peaceful and intimate landscape". [2] Beginning from 1895 Toussaint had been receiving a lot of orders for commercial posters for different official events. He died in the Brussels suburb of Elsene.
The Bookworm (German: Der Bücherwurm) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the German painter and poet Carl Spitzweg.The picture was made c. 1850 and is typical of Spitzweg's humorous, anecdotal style and it is characteristic of Biedermeier art in general. [1]