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Wallace Stevens
Overview
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 (1923), followed by a slightly revised and amended second edition in 1930. It features, among other poems, "The Emperor of Ice-Cream", "Sunday Morning", "The Snow Man", and "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird". His second period commenced with Ideas of Order (1933), included in Transport to Summer (1947). His third and final period began with the publication of The Auroras of Autumn (1950), followed by The Necessary Angel: Essays On Reality and the Imagination (1951).
Many of Stevens's poems, like "Anecdote of the Jar", "The Man with the Blue Guitar", "The Idea of Order at Key West", "Of Modern Poetry", and "Notes Towards a Supreme Fiction", deal with the art of making art and poetry in particular. His Collected Poems (1954) won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1955.
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Sec. 51. Hence, then, the higher forms of speech acquire a secondary strength from association. Having, in actual life, habitually heard them in connection with vivid mental impressions, and having been accustomed to meet with them in the most powerful writing, they come to have in themselves a species of force. The emotions that have from time to time been produced by the strong thoughts wrapped up in these forms…
Herbert Spencer, The Philosophy of Style
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Commend thou me to each, as doth behove. _This poem, that it may be better understood, I will divide more subtly than the others preceding; and therefore I will make three parts of it. The first part is a proem to the words following. The second is the matter treated of. The third is, as it were, a handmaid to the preceding words. The second begins here, “An Angel;” the third here, “Dear Song, I know.” The first…
Dante Alighieri, The New Life
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Of three kinds of funerals, there is one which is too extravagant, another is too niggardly, the third in a mean; and you choose and approve and order the last without qualification. But if I had an extremely rich wife, and she bade me bury her and describe her burial in a poem, I should praise the extravagant sort; and a poor miserly man, who had not much money to spend, would approve of the niggardly; and the man…
Plato, Laws
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Philosophers who discussed Wallace Stevens
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Jean Wahl
- Henri Bergson
- George Santayana
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Harold Bloom
- Simon Critchley
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Josiah Royce
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- John Milton
- George Santayana
- Harvard University
- Modernism
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- Harold Bloom
- Sophocles
- Simon Critchley
- St. Louis
- Theodicy
- The New York Times
- Divine Comedy
- Martin Heidegger
- Consciousness
- Columbia University
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- Charles Darwin
- Dante Alighieri
- Edmund Husserl
Place in the tradition
Part of Modernism.