The Surprises of the Superhuman is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first bookof poetry Harmonium. Itwas first published in 1918 so it is in the publicdomain.This poem was Section V of the poem-sequence Lettres d'un Soldat(1918). It was extracted as The Surprises of the Superhuman for thesecond edition of Harmonium along with Negation; the two poemsadjoin each other near the end of the book. Both poems reflectStevens's reading of Nietzsche. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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