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Wallace Stevens


Born
in Reading, Pennsylvania, The United States
October 02, 1879

Died
August 02, 1955

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Genre
Poetry, Essays, Plays

Influences
T.S. Eliot, Walt Whitman, John Keats, William Wordsworth, Ezra Pound, ...more


Wallace Stevens is a rare example of a poet whose main output came at a fairly advanced age. His first major publication (four poems from a sequence entitled "Phases" in the November 1914 edition of Poetry Magazine) was written at the age of thirty-five, although as an undergraduate at Harvard, Stevens had written poetry and exchanged sonnets with George Santayana, with whom he was close through much of his life. Many of his canonical works were written well after he turned fifty. According to the literary critic Harold Bloom, who called Stevens the "best and most representative" American poet of the time, no Western writer since Sophocles has had such a late flowering of artistic genius.

Stevens attended Harvard as a non-degree special stud ...more

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Average rating: 4.23 · 21,582 ratings · 929 reviews · 180 distinct works â€� Similar authors
The Collected Poems
4.27 avg rating — 11,499 ratings — published 1954
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The Palm at the End of the ...
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4.33 avg rating — 2,215 ratings — published 1971 — 14 editions
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Wallace Stevens: Collected ...
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4.42 avg rating — 1,709 ratings — published 1997 — 12 editions
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Harmonium
4.33 avg rating — 1,020 ratings — published 1923 — 46 editions
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The Necessary Angel: Essays...
4.15 avg rating — 768 ratings — published 1951 — 26 editions
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Selected Poems of Wallace S...
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4.22 avg rating — 375 ratings — published 2009 — 32 editions
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The Emperor of Ice-Cream an...
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3.96 avg rating — 257 ratings — published 1999 — 12 editions
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The Man with the Blue Guitar
4.15 avg rating — 229 ratings — published 1937 — 17 editions
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Opus Posthumous: Poems, Pla...
4.31 avg rating — 155 ratings — published 1957 — 34 editions
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Ideas of Order
4.08 avg rating — 153 ratings — published 1936 — 7 editions
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“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.”
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“Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.”
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“Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.”
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