Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Sunday morning. " Sunday Morning " is a poem from Wallace Stevens' first book of poetry, Harmonium. Published in part in the November 1915 issue of Poetry, then in full in 1923 in Harmonium, it is now in the public domain. The first published version can be read at the Poetry web site: [1] The literary critic Yvor Winters considered "Sunday ...
Harmonium is a book of poetry by American poet Wallace Stevens. His first book at the age of forty-four, it was published in 1923 by Knopf in an edition of 1500 copies. This collection comprises 85 poems, ranging in length from just a few lines ("Life Is Motion") to several hundred ("The Comedian as the Letter C") (see the footnotes [1] for the ...
1. Signature. 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. Stevens's first period begins with the publication of ...
Ploughing on Sunday. " Ploughing on Sunday " is a poem from Wallace Stevens 's first book of poetry, Harmonium (1923). First published in 1919, it is now in the public domain. [1] Tosses in the wind. Glitters in the sun. Water in the fields. The wind pours down. And bluster in the wind.
The Comedian as the Letter C. " The Comedian as the Letter C " is a poem from Wallace Stevens 's first book of poetry, Harmonium (1923). It was one of the few poems first published in that collection and the last written for it. John Gould Fletcher frames the poem as expressing Stevens's view "that the artist can do nothing else but select out ...
Valley Candle. " Valley Candle " is a poem from Wallace Stevens 's first book of poetry, Harmonium. It is in the public domain according to Librivox, having been first published prior to the 1923 publication year of Harmonium. [1] Valley Candle. My candle burned alone in an immense valley.
The Bird With The Coppery, Keen Claws is a poem from Wallace Stevens 's first book of poetry, Harmonium. It was originally published in 1921, so it is in the public domain. [ 1] Librivox has made the poem available in voice recording in its The Complete Public Domain Poems of Wallace Stevens. [1] The Bird With The Coppery, Keen Claws.
Of the Surface of Things. " Of the Surface of Things " is a poem from Wallace Stevens 's first book of poetry, Harmonium (1923). It was first published in 1919, [1] so it is in the public domain. Of the Surface of Things. I. In my room, the world is beyond my understanding; But when I walk I see that it consists of three or four.