Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) lived a richly imaginative life that he
expressed in his poems. The Whole Harmonium presents Stevens within
the living context of his times and as the creator of a poetry that
continues to shape how we understand and define ourselves. A lawyer
who rose to become an insurance-company vice president, Stevens
composed brilliant poems on long walks to work and at other stolen
moments. His first book of poems, Harmonium, published when he was
forty-four, drew on his profound understanding of Modernism to
create a distinctive and inimitable American idiom. Over time he
became acquainted with peers such as Robert Frost and William
Carlos Williams, but his personal style remained unique. The
complexity of Stevens's poetry rests on emotional, philosophical,
and linguistic tensions that thread their way intricately through
his poems. And while he can be challenging to understand, Stevens
has proven time and again to be one of the most richly rewarding
poets to read.
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