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Anecdote of the Jar
Wallace Stevens, “Anecdote of the Jar” from Collected Poems. Copyright 1923, 1951, 1954 by Wallace Stevens. Reprinted with the permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.
Source: Poetry (October 1919).
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Biography
Wallace Stevens is one of America's most respected poets. He was a master stylist, employing an extraordinary vocabulary and a rigorous precision in crafting his poems. But he was also a philosopher of aesthetics, vigorously exploring the notion of poetry as the supreme fusion of the creative imagination and objective reality. Because of the extreme technical and thematic complexity of his work, Stevens was sometimes considered . . .
Poems by Wallace Stevens
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Nature, Landscapes & Pastorals, Arts & Sciences, Language & Linguistics
SCHOOL / PERIOD Modern
Poetic Terms Imagery, Metaphor, Ars Poetica
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