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 success...
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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 a...
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Biography EssayIn "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 suffic...
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Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens
