Wallace Stevens collection

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Wallace Stevens collection

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  • 1957-1966 Spring (Production)

Importance matérielle

1 box (1.25 linear feet)

Nom du producteur

(1879-1955)

Notice biographique

Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was an American modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut.

Stevens's first period begins with the publication of Harmonium (1923), followed by a slightly revised and amended second edition in 1930. It features, among other poems, "The Emperor of Ice-Cream", "Sunday Morning", "The Snow Man", and "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird". His second period commenced with Ideas of Order (1933), included in Transport to Summer (1947). His third and final period began with the publication of The Auroras of Autumn (1950), followed by The Necessary Angel: Essays On Reality and the Imagination (1951).

Many of Stevens's poems, like "Anecdote of the Jar", "The Man with the Blue Guitar", "The Idea of Order at Key West", "Of Modern Poetry", and "Notes Towards a Supreme Fiction", deal with the art of making art and poetry in particular. His Collected Poems (1954) won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1955.

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This collection contains a phonodisc record titled "Wallace Stevens reading his poems", copyright 1957, as well as two printed poster-sized reproductions of his poem "Cy Est Pourtraicte, Madame Ste Ursule, et Les Unze Mille Vierges", printed in Spring 1966.

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This collection is open for research. This collection may be housed off-campus and must be requested a minimum of seven calendar days in advance for consultation in the Special Collections. Please contact asc.library@miami.edu to request materials from this collection.

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  • anglais

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  • latin

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Finding aid created by Jordan Jedry, Purdy Project Archivist, 01-14-25.

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