Word: stevenses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The show sizzled with much of Allen at his best-knife-edge thrusts at the income-tax men, rival comedians, and pompous executives. It also fizzled occasionally with some of Allen at his worst, e.g., a leaden slapstick routine kidding TV consultants. By the time he was ready to wind...
By definition (he is a business success, therefore he is normal), Wallace Stevens cannot comfortably be classified as just a mud-dauber. As a vice president, presumably he can make perfectly good, understandable sense any time he feels like it. When he writes poetry, however-as he has been doing...
From 8:15 to 4:30 each working day Wallace Stevens sits at a big, uncluttered desk in a comfortable office with a thick russet carpet. As vice president of the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Co., he spends his business hours dealing with fidelity and surety claims. Nobody would take...
His reputation in avant-garde literary circles is just as solid as his reputation in business. His latest bouquet from U.S. poetry pundits was this year's Bollingen Prize.* Stevens makes no excuses for his double life. "Poetry," says he, "is my way of making the world palatable. It...
The same question might be asked of Stevens' poems, most of which begin to fade as soon as they are read. But though they resist the memory as well as the intelligence, their delicate, twangy music-as full of surprises as a zither-sometimes delights the ear. Few living...