Word: stevension
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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9:30 Theodore Spencer reads from the poetry of Wallace Stevens
The Harvard Advocate's Christmas present this year is an issue devoted to the poetry of Wallace Stevens, but not just to the poetry mind you, but to a pot-pourri of criticism that seems to say, "There. You're a damn fool if you don't like it."
The first three poems, representing his recent work, are, of course, the better ones, but the reader new to Stevens should read the earlier poems first, in order to understand Stevens' thorough background in traditional metrical forms. Stevens' handling of the strait-laced sonnet form alone shows his power. Another...
Such poets as Sandburg, Masters, Riding are brutally panned; kindlier treated are Wallace Stevens, Conrad Aiken, Euripides and his translators Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald. Housman was no great minor poet; he was a man obsessed by an adolescent sense of death, with a knack for popular expression of it...
What these fishermen saw was the U. S. Navy's newest gadget: its growing squadron of motor torpedo boats, getting a sea test in rough water. Returning to the Brooklyn Navy Yard at nightfall each day with his five waterbugs, handsome Lieut. Earl Stevens Caldwell, youngest (and lowest-ranking...