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The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream. " The Emperor of Ice-Cream " is a poem by Wallace Stevens 's first collection of poetry, Harmonium (1923). Stevens' biographer, Paul Mariani , identifies the poem as one of Stevens' personal favorites from Harmonium . [ 1 ]
In a letter written in 1933 Stevens selects "The Emperor of Ice Cream" as his favorite among his poems because it contains something of "the essential gaudiness of poetry". [49] Later, in 1939, he wrote a letter expressing fondness for " Fabliau of Florida ".)
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.
Pages in category "Poetry by Wallace Stevens" The following 84 pages are in this category, out of 84 total. ... The Emperor of Ice-Cream; Explanation (poem) F.
O Florida, Venereal Soil" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, Harmonium. It was first published in the journal Dial , volume 73, July 1922, [ 1 ] and is therefore in the public domain.
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Buttel comments on the poem's title. "How appropriate", he writes, "for Stevens' theme to infuse, by such imaginative conjoinings [American watermelon, French pavilion], the earthy, vigorous reality of America with the grace of French words. By such means he was able to be richly aesthetic without sacrificing vitality". [3]