Harmonium
Wallace Stevens · 1923
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Description
Wallace Stevens published Harmonium in 1923, his first book of poems. Stevens was an insurance executive in Hartford who wrote poetry on the side. The poems play with lush language, strange images, and bright wit. Sunday Morning, The Emperor of Ice-Cream, and Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird are among them.
Stevens pits imagination against plain reality and finds joy on the side of imagination. Florida scenes, music, and food recur in sensuous detail. The book sold poorly at first and Stevens wrote little for years. Later readers raised it to classic status. It remains a dazzling start to a major poetic career.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Wallace Stevens |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1923 |
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 196 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |