Wallace Stevens est un poète, précurseur majeur de la poésie moderne américaine.
Alliant la poésie à son métier d'avocat, il publie son premier livre, Harmonium, en 1923. Moins reconnu de son vivant que d'autres poètes de sa génération , il reçoit en 1955 le National Book Award pour Collected poems et le Prix Pulitzer. La même année, il obtient un titre honoraire de l'Université Yale.
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“Music falls on the silence like a sense,
A passion that we feel, not understand.”
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Change
The Man With the Blue Guitar (1937)
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Change
“Nothing had happened because nothing had changed.
Yet the General was rubbish in the end.”
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Change
“Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the blackbird.”
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" - Full text online http://boppin.com/poets/stevens.htm
"The Blackbird Is Flying, The Children Must Be Writing" Sam Swope http://www.samswope.org/work2.htm (an essay on the use of this poem as a teaching tool).
Harmonium (1923)
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract
The Man With the Blue Guitar (1937)
The Man With the Blue Guitar (1937)
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure
“Each must the other take as sign, short sign
To stop the whirlwind, balk the elements.”
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure
“These external regions, what do we fill them with
Except reflections”
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract
“A man and a woman
Are one.
A man and a woman and a blackbird
Are one.”
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
Harmonium (1923)
The Necessary Angel (1951), Imagination as Value
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure
“He imposes orders as he thinks of them,
As the fox and snake do. It is a brave affair.”
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract
