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University of Pennsylvania: Wallace Stevens Visit these pages for information on Stevens and links to six of his poems. The site includes the following: | |
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Three Letters of 1945 | |
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Stevens's Alleged Deathbed Conversion | |
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Beyond the Rhetorician's Touch: Stevens' Painterly Abstractions | |
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A Visual Aid to "Anecdote of the Jar" "Anecdote of the Jar" is a short poem by Stevens, conceptual and comic, in which the poet tries failingly to integrate a jar such as the one in this photograph into the wilderness of Tennessee. The poem is often read as a metaphor for the imaginative dilemma of the Modern American poet. | |
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The Hartford Friends of Wallace Stevens Here you will find some poetry, the Wallace Stevens walking tour, event notices, the Wallace Stevens Listserv and links to notable Stevens Web sites. Posted at Wesleyan. | |
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The Wallace Stevens Journal From Clarkson University, here is the home page of the Wallace Stevens Journal, a publication of the Wallace Stevens Society. | |
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A Short Biography A short biography is found here. Nearby, there are three Steven's poems. | |
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Toward Understanding the Poems Here is a page that addresses the difficulty of Steven's poems. This page will certainly be of use to the beginning student. | |
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Memo from the Desk of Wallace Stevens From Atlantic Unbound, here is a poem in double dactyls by Dick Allen. On the same page, you can hear the poem read aloud by the poet. | |
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Wallace Stevens Quotations Here are a few quotations from the author, indexed according to theme. | |
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Never-Ending Meditation: Postures of Epistemology in Wallace Stevens' Harmonium Written by Alain Suberchicot at the Université de Clermont Ferrand II, France, this very long, substantial essay broadly discusses meaning in Stevens's poems. | |
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Audio Files Listen to Stevens intone four of his poems, including "The Idea of Order at Key West." These excellent readings are available from Harper Audio. | |
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Academy of American Poets: Wallace Stevens From the AAP, here is a page of biographical and bibliographical material on Stevens. It also includes links to several of his major poems and a link to an essay that may help somewhat to ground Stevens in Modernism. | |
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The Hartford Accident and Indemnity Building The building where Stevens pursued his other career. | |
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Blue Dog Review A page about his poems and his psychology. |
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