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Wallace Stevens

Born

in Reading, Pennsylvania, The United States

October 02, 1879

Died

August 02, 1955

Website

http://www.wallacestevens.com/

Genre

Poetry, Essays, Plays

Influences

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

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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: 4.22 · 22,148 ratings · 1,013 reviews · 214 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Collected Poems 4.27 avg rating — 11,651 ratings — published 1954 — 52 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play by Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens (Editor) 4.33 avg rating — 2,237 ratings — published 1971 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry & Prose by Wallace Stevens, Joan Richardson (Editor), Frank Kermode (Editor) 4.42 avg rating — 1,740 ratings — published 1997 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Harmonium 4.33 avg rating — 1,073 ratings — published 1923 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination 4.14 avg rating — 793 ratings — published 1951 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selected Poems of Wallace Stevens by Wallace Stevens, John N. Serio (Editor) 4.19 avg rating — 399 ratings — published 2009 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Emperor of Ice-Cream and Other Poems by Wallace Stevens, Bob Blaisdell (Editor) 3.94 avg rating — 267 ratings — published 1999 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Man with the Blue Guitar 4.14 avg rating — 238 ratings — published 1937 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ideas of Order 4.08 avg rating — 170 ratings — published 1936 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose 4.31 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 1957 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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