Word: stevenses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SOUVENIRS AND PROPHECIES by HOLLY STEVENS 288 pages. Knopf. $12.50.
"He would tell me, with the deadpan rattle of a secret agent... what Wallace Stevens said ... before disappearing forever into the disguise of a Hartford Insurance executive." -John Updike, Museums and Women
Until now, John Updike's speculation was strictly fictive. No one knew what Stevens' private mind was like. All that could be concluded was that one of America's major poets showed the world a most prosaic exterior. Was the insurance man a mask? Was the poet...
Answers to many questions about this enigmatic bard lie in the pages of Souvenirs and Prophecies, a commingling of diaries, early writings and annotations by Stevens' daughter Holly. Here is the Harvard undergraduate, scribbling doggerel fit for a greeting card: "Long lines of coral light/ And evening star,/ One...
But they knew way too much--it was boring correcting their papers. Feel sorry for us? Well, you shouldn't, because most of the answers we received were weird enough to challenge a Ray Stevens number. Let's check some of them out (the names have remained the same to...