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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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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Deathbed conversion (section Wallace Stevens)
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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Academy of American Poets (redirect from Wallace Stevens Award)
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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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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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 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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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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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 Emperor of Ice-Cream (category Poetry by Wallace Stevens)
poem by 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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while offering more mundane explanations. Similarly, many poems of Wallace Stevens convey a struggle with the sense of nature's significance, falling...
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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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Center for Research in Black Culture, Harlem. In 2018, she won the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets for proven mastery of the...
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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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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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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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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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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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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (category Poetry by Wallace Stevens)
Companion to Wallace Stevens speaks of the importance the author placed upon linguistic structure in many of his poems. In this instance, Stevens is experimenting...
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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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The Snow Man (category Poetry by Wallace Stevens)
Companion to Wallace Stevens. Stevens. H. Letters of Wallace Stevens. 1966: University of California Press. Leggett, B.J. Early Stevens: The Nietzschean...
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and playwright Wallace Stegner (1909–1993), American environmentalist and fiction writer Wallace Stevens (1879–1955), American poet Wallace Thayer (1866–1944)...
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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 described...
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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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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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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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Max Eastman, and Wallace Stevens. Stevens was especially influenced by Santayana's aesthetics and became a friend even though Stevens did not take courses...
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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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Tuscan as the basis for the national Italian language. American poet Wallace Stevens called the text "one of the great documents of Christianity," noting...
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in the poetry of Wallace Stevens (Routledge, 2005) In Things Merely Are, Critchley argues for two claims: (1) that Wallace Stevens's poetry affords significant...
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