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Many literary artists such as Ernest Hemingway and Robert Frost frequently visited Key West and drew inspiration from its environment; among them was Stevens, who met the two men on different occasions. [2] [3] As with many other poems of Stevens', "The Idea of Order at Key West" introduces dissonance between reality and
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.
Ernest Miller Hemingway (/ ˈ h ɛ m ɪ ŋ w eɪ / HEM-ing-way; July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle and outspoken, blunt public image.
In its early years, the seminar focused on the literary history of Key West, a small subtropical town which has been home to Ernest Hemingway, Elizabeth Bishop, Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, and Tennessee Williams, among others. Subsequent Seminars have been devoted to broader genres or literary themes.
The Man with the Blue Guitar (1937) - Wallace Stevens; Manasi - Rabindranath Tagore; The Marble Faun (1924) - William Faulkner; The Marriage of Heaven and Hell - William Blake 1790–1793; The Mayfield Deer (1941) - Mark Van Doren; Meditations in an Emergency (1957) - Frank O'Hara; Men and Women - Robert Browning; Mexico City Blues (1959 ...
Ernest Hemingway spent the 1930s in Key West, Florida, and more than six decades after his death, fans, scholars and relatives continue to congregate on the island city to celebrate the author's ...
Among modernists (or late modernists) still publishing after 1945 were Wallace Stevens, Gottfried Benn, T. S. Eliot, Anna Akhmatova, William Faulkner, Dorothy Richardson, John Cowper Powys, and Ezra Pound. Basil Bunting, born in 1901, published his most important modernist poem Briggflatts in 1965.
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.