Wallace Stevens: Collected Poems

Wallace Stevens is one of the most distinctive and extravagant voices in American poetry, an orator of the imagination and eloquent observer of the world’s beauty. Beginning with the appearance of the astonishing Harmonium in 1923, Stevens published seven volumes of poetry while living an ‘ordinary’ life as an insurance executive in Hartford, Connecticut. His Collected Poems is a book of wonders, one of the landmarks of American literary modernism, and his poems are admired and studied for their lustrous language, their philosophical profundity, and their commitment to the importance of poetry in our everyday lives. In this seminar, we will read through the Collected Poems, focusing on well known shorter lyrics such as “Sunday Morning,” “The Snow Man,” and “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,” as well as his formidable and rewarding longer poems such as “The Auroras of Autumn” and “Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction.” Through close reading and discussion, our goal is to become familiar and appreciative readers of his poems.

Texts:
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

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