Who is Wallace Stevens

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. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his Collected Poems in 1955.

Stevens's first period of writing begins with the 1923 publication of Harmonium, followed by a slightly revised and amended second edition in 1930. His second period occurred in the 11 years immediately preceding the publication of his Transport to Summer, when Stevens had written three volumes of poems including Ideas of Order, The Man with the Blue Guitar, Parts of a World, along with Transport to Summer. His third and final period began wi...
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Wallace Stevens Poems

• Hymn From A Watermelon Pavilion
  You dweller in the dark cabin,
  To whom the watermelon is always purple,
  Whose garden is wind and moon,
  ...
• No Possum, No Sop, No Taters
  He is not here, the old sun,
  As absent as if we were asleep.
  
  The field is frozen. The leaves are dry. ...
• The Man On The Dump
  Day creeps down. The moon is creeping up.
  The sun is a corbeil of flowers the moon Blanche
  Places there, a bouquet. Ho-hoâ?¦The dump is full
  Of images. Days pass like papers from a press. ...
• The River Of Rivers In Connecticut
  There is a great river this side of Stygia
  Before one comes to the first black cataracts
  And trees that lack the intelligence of trees.
  ...
• The High-toned Old Christian Woman
  Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame.
  Take the moral law and make a nave of it
  And from the nave build haunted heaven.Thus,
  The conscience is converted into palms, ...

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Wallace Stevens Quotes

• The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
• To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest.

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