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Wallace Stevens (1879 – 1955)

Nationality: AmericanPeriods: American: 20th Century

winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Collected Poems and the National Book Award for The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination

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Criticism about Wallace Stevens

‘Beyond the Rhetorician’s Touch’: Stevens’s Painterly Abstractions
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Stevens/talcoat-alh.html
“The pattern that emerges from Stevens’s first postwar acquisitions reveals an uncommon, complex relation to these fresh cultural claims for and in American art; he both repudiated them and finally reinforced them, but each disposition discloses a trend in his later poems–a movement back to the real that had somehow to consort with what he was calling ‘the momentum toward abstraction.’ “
Contains: Commentary, Criticism
Author: Alan Filreis
From: American Literary History Spring 1992, pp. 230-63
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Description Without a Sense of Place
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Stevens/vangeyzel.html
“If Welles’s decision to refer straightforwardly to recent events came as no surprise at Harvard, what should we make of Stevens’s decision not to? The final point of Welles’s speech itself suggests that the poet whoshared the platform with the politician that morning at the Fogg Museum would also surely have something to say about the present situation, for the politician’s way of speaking about the effect of the war “in every fieldof life served to enlarge the relevance of his position from politics to politics-as-including-culture. Welles could easily sustain the wartime conception of art, too, as a war effort that must not relent in the postwarperiod, and in his Harvard speech he pushed that point by rhetorically creating a moment in which he acknowledged the situation of his fellow speaker.”
Contains: Commentary, Criticism
Author: Alan Filreis
From: Wallace Stevens and the Actual World Princeton University Press, 1991
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An Introduction to Reading Wallace Stevens as a Poet of the Human Spirit
https://www.academia.edu/16607568/An_Introduction_to_Reading_Wallace_Stevens_as_a_Poet_of_the_Human_Spirit
This essay concludes that “Contrary to all appearances, to the difficulty of his verse, and to the preoccupied, distracted interpretations of contemporary critics, Wallace Stevens’ poetry is a profoundly spiritual force. Anyone interested in the spiritual problems of modern humans must reckon with it.”
Contains: Criticism
Author: Dana Wilde
From: The Antigonish Review Issue 109
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Noble Imagery: Wallace Stevens and Mesoamerican Mythology
https://www.connotations.de/article/anca-rosu-noble-imagery-wallace-stevens-and-mesoamerican-mythology/
“A reading of Wallace Stevens in relation to Mesoamerican mythology, which I will try to perform in what follows, goes beyond providing a historical context for his poetry–a series of nativist theories regarding American identity and its origins in precolumbian cultures–because it tells us something about his poetics–the extent to which his poetic practice results, in a manner of speaking, from America’s own imprint on the imagination.”
Contains: Criticism
Author: Anca Rosu
From: Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate 5.2-3 (1995-96): 240-258
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Wallace Stevens
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Stevens/home.html
This site consists of a collection of resources about Wallace Stevens including reviews, essays, photographs, and more.
Contains: Commentary, Criticism, Pictures
Author: Alan Filreis
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Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
https://www.modernamericanpoetry.org/poet/wallace-stevens
Site is divided into sections such as: a biography, excerpts from critical commentary on many of his poems, and links to more web sites about him.
Contains: Sketch, Pictures, Commentary, Webliography
Author: Edward Brunner, John Timberman Newcomb, and Cary Nelson
From: Modern American Poetry
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Biographical sites about Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/124
This site compiled by the Academy of American Poets gives biographical information, a bibliography of Stevens’ work, links to online poems, and other places to find Stevens’ information.
Contains: Sketch, Bibliography
From: Academy of American Poets
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