Wallace Stevens

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in Reading, Pennsylvania, The United States

October 02, 1879

died

August 02, 1955

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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.

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	The Collected Poems 4.31 of 5 stars 4.31 avg rating — 5,309 ratings — published 1954 — 7 editions	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 4.36 of 5 stars 4.36 avg rating — 1,062 ratings — published 1971 — 6 editions	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
	Collected Poetry & Prose (Library of America #96) by Wallace Stevens, Frank Kermode, Joan Richardson (Editor) 4.47 of 5 stars 4.47 avg rating — 801 ratings — published 1997	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 4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 382 ratings — published 1951 — 4 editions	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 4.55 of 5 stars 4.55 avg rating — 206 ratings — published 1975 — 4 editions	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 4.34 of 5 stars 4.34 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 1957 — 6 editions	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) 4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions	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
	Man with the Blue Guitar 4.38 of 5 stars 4.38 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 1998	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
	Stevens: Poems by Wallace Stevens, Helen Hennessy Vendler (Editor) 4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 105 ratings — published 1947 — 6 editions	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
	Letters of Wallace Stevens 4.31 of 5 stars 4.31 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1996	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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“I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendos
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.”
― Wallace Stevens

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“Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.”
― Wallace Stevens

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“The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.”
― Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems

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