Wallace Stevens
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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 the Jar," "The Emperor of Ice Cream," "The Idea of Order at Key West," "Sunday Morning ," and "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird."
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- So And So Reclining On Her Couch
- Not Ideas About The Thing But The Thing Itself
- Fabliau Of Florida
- the idea of order at key west
- Bantams In Pine-Woods
- Infanta Marina
- Anecdote of the Jar
- So-And-So Reclining On Her Couch
- So & So Reclining On Her Couch
- Imago
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- To the One of Fictive Music
- Nomad Exquisite
- Less and Less Human, O Savage Spirit
- Less And Less Human
- Indian River
- The Auroras of Autumn
- Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour
- Credences of Summer
- Named Exquisite
- Large Red Man Reading
- The Novel
- To an Old Philosopher in Rome
- Life Is Motion
- from An Ordinary Evening in New Haven (sections: I, IX, XI, XII)
- Tattoo
- The Emperor of Ice Cream
- Thirteen Ways of Looking At a Blackbird
- Stevens - Not Ideas About the Thing But the Thing Itself
- Theory
- To the Roaring Wind
- Anecdote of Canna
- The Snowman
- Song - There Are Great Things Doing
- Stevens - Fabliau of Florida
- Stevens - Bantams in Pine-Woods
- Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock
- Anecdote of Men By the Thousand
- Not Ideas About the Thing
- Stevens - So-And-So Reclining on Her Couch
- Wallace Stevens - Infanta Marina
- Autumn
- Gray Room
- Another Weeping Woman
- Wallace Stevens - Indian River
- Wallace Stevens - Named Exquisite
- The Florist Wears Knee-Breeches
- Wallace Stevens - Fabliau Of Florida
- The Bird With the Coppery Keen Claws
- The Plain Sense of Things
- Peter Quince At the Clavier
- Carnet De Voyage
- Wallace Stevens - The Novel
- Wallace Stevens - Less And Less Human
- Wallace Stevens - Bantams Of Pine Woods
- The Apostrophe to Vincentine
- Wallace Stevens - Imago
- Bowl
- Bantam in Pine-Woods
- Valley Candle
- Exposition of the Contents of a Cab
- Earthly Anecdote
- From a Junk
- Depression Before Spring
- Frogs Eat Butterflies. Snakes Eat Frogs. Hogs Eat Snakes. Men Eat Hogs
- Domination of Black
- The Snow Man
- Banal Sojourn
- The Cuban Doctor
- The Curtains in the House of the Metaphysician
- Tea
- Explanation
- The Wind Shifts
- Invective Against Swans
- Hibiscus On the Sleeping Shores
- Plowing On Sunday
- Gubbinal
- Outside the Hospital
- The Indigo Glass in the Grass
- Bantams in Pine Woods
- Cortege for Rosenbloom
- Hymn from the Watermelon Pavilion
- Meditation
- Wallace Stevens
- The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain
- The Place of the Solitaires
- In Battle
- Lulu Gay
- Bantams in Pine Woods by Wallace Stevens
- O, Florida, Venereal Soil
- Phases
- The Paltry Nude Starts On a Spring Voyage
- No Ideas About the Thing But the Thing Itself
- The Theory of Poetry (A Prose Note)
- The Load of Sugar-Cane
- Greystone Avenue (Reprise)
- The Life of a Poet
- From An Ordinary Evening In New Haven (Sections I, IX, XI, XII)
- From the Misery of Don Joost
- Home Again
- From the Misey of Don Joost
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