Wallace Stevens
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Wallace Stevens, hombre de la generación de Ortega y Azaña, o Musil y Apollinaire, y uno de los más destacados poetas del siglo, apenas publicó más ensayos teóricos que los aquí recogidos, escritos entre 1942 y 1951. No se trata de piezas menores y de circunstancias, sino de "páginas que tienen que ver con uno de los modos de ensanchar la vida". Para este poeta singularmente reflexivo, "la realidad moderna es una realidad de descreación",...
2) Harmonium
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An executive with a Connecticut-based insurance company, Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) wrote poetry in the evenings and during his daily commute. Harmonium, his first collection of verse, was published when he was 44 years old. Although largely overlooked upon its 1923 debut, the compilation is recognized today as an important contribution to Modernism, offering a diverse range of satirical and philosophical lyrical works that explore the nature of...
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Witty, ironic, and thought-provoking, the experimental style of Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) forever changed the landscape of modern verse. This collection includes 82 works by the 1955 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, including such oft-studied compositions as "Sunday Morning," "Peter Quince at the Clavier," "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," and the title piece.