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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...
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  • poets from Shakespeare and George Herbert to modern poets such as Wallace Stevens and Seamus Heaney. Her technique was close reading which she preferred...
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  • given annually. A noted translator chooses the winning book. Named for Wallace Stevens, the award was established in 1994 by Dorothea Tanning to "recognize...
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  • alleging he converted secretly two months before his death. The poet Wallace Stevens is said to have been baptized a Catholic during his last days suffering...
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  • Of Modern Poetry (category Poetry by Wallace Stevens)
    "Of Modern Poetry" is included in Wallace Stevens' third volume of poetry, Parts of a World, published in 1942 and republished in 1951. It is in the public...
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    H.D., Djuna Barnes, Amy Lowell, Conrad Aiken, Carl Sandburg, and Wallace Stevens. The U.S. modernist poets were concerned to create work in a distinctively...
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  • The Idea of Order at Key West (category Poetry by Wallace Stevens)
    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...
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  • The Wallace Stevens Journal is an academic journal established in 1977 and the official publication of The Wallace Stevens Society. It covers the works...
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  • The Man with the Blue Guitar (category Poetry by Wallace Stevens)
    The Man With the Blue Guitar is a poem published in 1937 by Wallace Stevens. It is divided into thirty-three brief sections, or cantos. The poem has been...
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  • The Auroras of Autumn (category Poetry by Wallace Stevens)
    Autumn is a 1950 book of poetry by Wallace Stevens. The book of poems contains the long poem of 10 cantos by Stevens of the same name. The book features...
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    Doubleday), W. B. Yeats (Yeats, Oxford University Press), and Wallace Stevens (Wallace Stevens: The Poems of Our Climate, Cornell University Press). In these...
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    Harmonium (poetry collection) (category Poetry by Wallace Stevens)
    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...
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  • The Emperor of Ice-Cream (category Poetry by Wallace Stevens)
    poem from Wallace Stevens's first collection of poetry, Harmonium (1923). Stevens' biographer, Paul Mariani, identifies the poem as one of Stevens' personal...
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    Hockney, David; Stevens, Wallace (1 January 1977). The Blue Guitar: Etchings By David Hockney Who Was Inspired By Wallace Stevens Who Was Inspired By...
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  • in the middle of the play. The character is named in the title of a Wallace Stevens poem, "Peter Quince at the Clavier", which is written in the first...
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  • List of winners of the Wallace Stevens Award. Originally named for its donor Dorothea Tanning, the Wallace Stevens Award was established in 1994 and is...
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  • who was inspired by Wallace Stevens who was inspired by Pablo Picasso" In 1976 Henry Geldzahler introduced Hockney to Wallace Stevens' 1937 poem, The Man...
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    Mercury. Weinman is believed to have used Elsie Stevens, the wife of lawyer and poet Wallace Stevens, as a model. The coin's reverse depicts a fasces...
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  • really verse—the best that is, of W.C. Williams, H. D., Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, and Ezra Pound—is, in its peculiar fashion, the antithesis of free...
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  • Mariani, a biographer of Wallace Stevens, presented his analysis of the painting as a counterpoint to objections raised by Stevens concerning the origin...
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  • Among modernists (or late modernists) still publishing after 1945 were Wallace Stevens, Gottfried Benn, T. S. Eliot, Anna Akhmatova, William Faulkner, Dorothy...
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  • environmentalist and fiction writer Wallace Stevens (1879–1955), American poet Wallace Thayer (1866–1944), New York assemblyman Wallace Thompson (1896–1952), American...
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    experimental forms. American modernist poets included diverse figures such as Wallace Stevens, T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, and E. E. Cummings. Depression-era...
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    Clover (1936) - Wallace Stevens The Palm at the End of the Mind (posthumous, 1972) - Wallace Stevens Parts of a World (1942) - Wallace Stevens Paulicéia Desvairada...
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  • she was made an Arabian princess. She is also mentioned in a poem by Wallace Stevens called "The Worms at Heaven's Gate" in his book Harmonium. She is a...
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    most famous poems: "Ulysses". Among American poets, Hart Crane and Wallace Stevens are notable for using blank verse in extended compositions at a time...
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  • Anecdote of the Jar (category Poetry by Wallace Stevens)
    Tennessee. "Anecdote of the Jar" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, Harmonium. Wallace Stevens is an important figure in 20th century American...
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    Schlossberg, Edwin (1985). The pirated edition of Stevens and Bohr: a record of correspondence between Wallace Stevens and Niels Bohr and journals written during...
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  • to bring myth and a sense of the sacred back into secular reality — Wallace Stevens speaking for much of the movement when he wrote that "if nothing was...
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    Center for Research in Black Culture, Harlem. In 2018, she won the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets for proven mastery in the...
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