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Stevens, Wallace
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...Wallace Stevens, 1879–1955, American poet, b. Reading...president. A master of exquisite verse, Stevens was specifically concerned with creating...toward a Supreme Fiction," in which Stevens elaborates on the poet's role in creating......
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symbolists
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......of Arthur Symons, T. S. Eliot, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Eugene O'Neill, Hart Crane, Wallace Stevens, Dylan Thomas, William Faulkner, and E. E. Cummings. See C. M. Bowra, The Heritage of Symbolism (1943......
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Bloom, Harold
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......has also written studies of many individual authors, e.g., Shelley (1959), Blake (1963), Yeats (1970), Wallace Stevens (1977), and Shakespeare (1998). His wide-ranging literary concerns are represented in The Western Canon......
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Hartford
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......Morgan were born in Hartford; the theologian Horace Bushnell, the author Charles Dudley Warner, and the poet Wallace Stevens lived there. The city's many parks include Elizabeth Park, scene of an annual rose festival, and Colt Park......
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little magazine
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......owed much to little magazines were T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, Edgar Lee Masters, Hart Crane, and Wallace Stevens. James Joyce's Ulysses had its first U.S. printing, in serial installments, in the Little Review. As a result......
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lyric
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......Housman, Rainer Maria Rilke, Federico García Lorca, W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Wallace Stevens, Elinor Wylie, Dylan Thomas, and Robert Lowell. See J. M. Cohen, The Baroque Lyric (1963); C. D. Lewis......
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mythology
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......Some great literary figures, notably William Blake, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, and Wallace Stevens have consciously constructed personal myths using the old materials and newly constructed symbols. Recurrent ThemesStudies......
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Vendler, Helen Hennessy
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......great advocates. Her major works include monographs on W. B. Yeats (1963 and 2007), George Herbert (1975), Wallace Stevens (1969 and 1984), and Seamus Heaney (1998) as well as studies of Keats's Odes (1983) and Shakespeare's Sonnets......
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ode
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......Immortality." Although the ode has been seldom used in the 20th cent., Allen Tate in "Ode on the Confederate Dead" and Wallace Stevens in "The Idea of Order at Key West" made successful, and highly personal, use of the form. See studies by C......