By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm’ (1946) is one of Wallace Stevens’s finest later poems. In just sixteen lines and eight couplets, Stevens summons the quiet and calm of solitary reading inside a house. You can read ‘The House Was Quiet […]
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A Summary and Analysis of Wallace Stevens’ ‘The Idea of Order at Key West’
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘The Idea of Order at Key West’ (1934) is one of Wallace Stevens’s finest nature poems, but it is also a celebration of the transformative power of art. But there’s a little more to the poem than this glib summary suggests. You can read […]
A Short Analysis of Wallace Stevens’ ‘A Postcard from the Volcano’
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘A Postcard from the Volcano’ is one of Wallace Stevens’s most famous poems. It is also one of his more accessible. The poem was published in Stevens’s 1936 collection Ideas of Order. You can read ‘A Postcard from the Volcano’ here before proceeding to […]
A Summary and Analysis of Wallace Stevens’ ‘Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird’
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird’ appeared in Harmonium (1923), the first poetry collection of the American modernist poet Wallace Stevens, although it had originally been published in an American magazine, Others, in 1917. At once a poem and a series of thirteen […]
A Summary and Analysis of Wallace Stevens’ ‘Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock’
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock’ is one of Wallace Stevens’s most assured, and popular, short poems. It belongs to his early period: it was first published in 1915 before being collected in his first book-length collection, Harmonium, in 1923. You can read ‘Disillusionment of Ten […]