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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird. " Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird " is a poem from Wallace Stevens 's first book of poetry, Harmonium. The poem consists of thirteen short, separate sections, each of which mentions blackbirds in some way. Although inspired by haiku, none of the sections meets the traditional definition of haiku.
Lunar Paraphrase. "Lunar Paraphrase" is a poem from the second (1931) edition of Wallace Stevens 's first book of poetry, Harmonium. One of Stevens's "war poems" from "Lettres d'un Soldat" (1918), it is in the public domain. [1] The moon is the mother of pathos and pity. The moon is the mother of pathos and pity.
In the morning, The jack-rabbit sang to the Arkansaw. He carolled in caracoles On the feat sandbars. The black man said, "Now, grandmother, Crochet me this buzzard On your winding-sheet, And do not forget his wry neck After the winter." The black man said, "Look out, O caroller, The entrails of the buzzard Are rattling."
Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock. " Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock " is a poem from Wallace Stevens 's first book of poetry, Harmonium. First published in 1915, it is in the public domain. [1] Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock. The houses are haunted. By white night-gowns.
Snakes Eat Frogs. Hogs Eat Snakes. Men Eat Hogs " is a poem from Wallace Stevens 's first book of poetry, Harmonium. It was first published in The Dial in 1922 [1] and is therefore in the public domain. Frogs Eat Butterflies. Snakes Eat Frogs. Hogs Eat Snakes. Men Eat Hogs. While they went seaward to the sea-mouths.