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| Name: |
Wallace Stevens | | Birth Date: |
October 2, 1879 | | Death Date: |
August 2, 1955 | | Place of Birth: |
Reading, Pennsylvania, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
poet |
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 Biography of Wallace Stevens
16,258 words, approx. 54 pages
 In "Of Modern Poetry," a poem first published in 1942, Wallace Stevens sets forth the dilemma of the poet in the modern world: The poem of the mind in the act of findingWhat will suffice. It has not always hadTo find: the scene was set; it repeated... summary from source:
 Biography of Wallace Stevens
14,661 words, approx. 49 pages
In "Of Modern Poetry," a poem first published in 1942, Wallace Stevens sets forth the dilemma of the poet in the modern world: The poem of the mind in the act of finding What will suffice. It has not always had To find: the scene was set; it repeated... summary from source:
Biography of Wallace Stevens
1,769 words, approx. 6 pages
American poet Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) was a virtuoso of language, a master of rhyme and verbal music, of gay and thoughtful rhythms, and of precise and exotic diction. Wallace Stevens was a successful lawyer and businessman, as well as an important... 
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 Wallace Stevens Quotes
10,435 words, approx. 35 pages
 Wallace Stevens ( 2 October 1879 - 2 August 1955 ) was an American poet and businessman. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 Peter Quince at the Clavier (1915) 1.2 Harmonium (1923) 1.3 Ideas of Order (1936) 1.4 The Man With the Blue Guitar (1937) 1.5 Notes Toward a...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Wallace Stevens Information
3,871 words, approx. 13 pages
Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was a major American Modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, and spent most of his adult life working for an insurance company in Connecticut. His best-known poems include "Anecdote of...
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 AP News Immigrant Simic to be U.S. poet laureate
8/2/2007: 508 words, approx. 2 pagesPulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic, who learned English as a teenage immigrant, will be the new U.S. poet laureate, the Library of Congress announced Thursday.Simic, who lives in Strafford, will replace another New Hampshire poet, Donald Hall of Wilmot, the poet laureate program, which promotes... summary from source:
AP News Today in history - Jan. 27
1/27/2008: 552 words, approx. 2 pagesToday is Sunday, Jan. 27, the 27th day of 2008. There are 339 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Jan. 27, 1967, astronauts Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard... summary from source:
The New York Observer Realist Richard Baker Confers His Anxiety On Tulips, Lemons
5/29/2005: 627 words, approx. 2 pagesThere are times when objects in a realist painting seem to abandon their identity and become something else-something more mysterious and independent, more like symbols or memories than easily recognized physical items occupying real space in the real world. In the recent still-life paintings of... summary from source:
The New York Observer When Dad Is in the Closet\'d1 And Runs a Funeral Home
6/25/2006: 1,212 words, approx. 4 pagesCarl Jung once wrote that nothing has a stronger influence on a child’s psyche than the unlived life of a parent. I see it in myself. The story of my mother in high school playing Anna in The King and I hung around our family...
Literary Criticism
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 Harold Bloom
4,526 words, approx. 15 pages
In the following essay, Bloom selects a representative poem from both Wallace Stevens and W. B. Yeats in order to contrast American and British poetic conceptions of death, and observes that the former is generally more solipsistic than the latter.
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