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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.
About this poem Stevens wrote that it was "simply an expression of paganism". [3] Helen Vendler in the Cambridge Companion to Wallace Stevens summarized the poem as Stevens's search for "a systematic truth that could replace the Christianity of his churchgoing childhood." For Vendler, the stratagem which Stevens employs in attempting to ...
The Wallace Stevens Journal has been published by the Wallace Stevens Society since 1979 [9] and its editor, John N. Serio, has collected some of the journal's essays in The Cambridge Companion to Wallace Stevens. An audiobook of his complete public domain poems was completed by Librivox in 2007.
Holly Stevens quotes a letter of her father in which he writes, "I had in mind simply a man fairly well along in life, looking back and talking in a more or less personal way about life." [ 3 ] This is widely regarded as reticence about the poem's commentary on his domestic life, or, as Helen Vendler phrases it, the poem is "about Stevens ...
These are poems predominantly from the first book of poems written by the American poet Wallace Stevens and first published in 1923. The second edition of the book was published a decade later. It is not a full list of his poems.
Gregg Wallace: From troubled childhood to troubling reputation, this TV stalwart is facing self-destruction. Nick Hilton. Updated November 29, 2024 at 6:41 AM. Gregg Wallace was always an unlikely ...
"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.
The adorably goofy neighbor who basically lived at the Stevens' family home, poking his nose into every sticky situation. ABC's "Even Stevens" - File.