The whole harmonium
Subtitle: the life of Wallace Stevens
By: Paul Mariani
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 481
ISBN-13: 9781451624373
Subjects: Biography; American Poets
Other titles: Life of Wallace Stevens
Description: "A perceptive, insightful biography of perhaps the most important American poet of the twentieth century, Wallace Stevens, by an accomplished biographer and poet who traces Stevens's lifelong artistic quest"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Heaven of an Old Home: 1879-1897; title: Harvard: 1897-1900; title: New York: Starting Out: 1900-1903; title: Two Versions of the American Sublime: 1903-1906; title: Wingèd Victory: 1907-1913; title: An Explosion in a Shingle Factory: 1913-1916; title: Yhe Eye of the Blackbird: 1916-1918; title: Hartford on the Harmonium: 1919-1921; title: The Comedian as the Letter C: 1921-1923; title: A Baby Among Us: 1923-1934; title: Ideas of Order at Key West: 1934-1936; title: The Man with the Blue Guitar: 1936-1937; title: The Noble Rider and the Sound of Words: 1938-1941; title: The Son Restores the Father: 1941-1945; title: Farewell to an Idea: 1944-1947; title: The Eye's Plain Version: 1948-1949; title: The Obscurity of an Order: 1950-1951; title: A New Knowledge of Reality: 1952-1954; title: A Final Seriousness: 1954-1955.