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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. [1]
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]
List of winners of the Wallace Stevens Award. Originally named for its donor Dorothea Tanning , the Wallace Stevens Award was established in 1994 and is being administered by the Academy of American Poets , to "recognize outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry"; it carries a prize of $100,000.
Six Significant Landscapes" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, Harmonium. It was first published in 1916, so it is in the public domain. It was first published in 1916, so it is in the public domain.
"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]
Though professing no awe, he finds that his old European mind suffers an "unburgherly apocalypse" by his encounter with the art of the New World. Stevens is self-consciously contributing experiments towards a burgeoning American art that may cause traditionalists to use their handkerchiefs and sigh. Vendler sees this as one of Stevens's major ...
She is Stevens's "unaccommodated object of desire before she has been clothed in the beauty of fantasy", according to Vendler. [ 2 ] Buttel helpfully draws attention to the line "Was whited green", which startles the reader, "through a verbal approximation of painting technique, into a vivid mental recognition—the object realized in art". [ 3 ]