Thirty-one years after his death, more people than ever are reading the sublime poetry of Wallace Stevens, and his critical reputation—which has grown steadily since 1950, the year he was awarded the ...

Poetry is the symphony of language, weaving intricate tapestries of emotion and thought with mere words. In its brevity lies a universe of meaning, inviting readers to explore depths beyond the ...

Wallace Stevens was one of the 20th century’s greatest poets, and an insurance executive who led a perfectly ordinary life. In his college diary, he reflected on how a life of discipline and duty ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Two of the prose works deal with insurance, which was, notoriously, Stevens’s day job for most of his life. Two ...

On the poet’s place in the American Pantheon & the new Selected Poems, edited by John N. Serio. The poet has interior landscapes in which to disappear and conformities without that conceal a radical ...

West Hartford poet Julie Choffel took her conflicted feelings for one of the most famous poets in Connecticut history and turned those thoughts into a book of poems, each of which begins “Dear Wallace ...

Readers familiar with the poet Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) might know “Sunday Morning,” an early poem that rejects biblical faith in favor of “divinity within,” or “High-Toned Old Christian Woman,” ...

I remember why I bought The Collected Poems. Stevens’s “Anecdote of a Jar,” from his first collection, Harmonium, published in 1923, was in an anthology I owned. I read and reread “Anecdote of a Jar” ...

POETRY The Vice President of Shapes In Hartford, Conn., a solid, conservative city of insurance companies, a solid, conservative old insurance man man died of cancer last week. He was was Wallace ...

Sundays aren’t what they used to be, but then again when were they? The Christian sabbath was already losing primacy a century ago when an insurance lawyer by the name of Wallace Stevens published ...

From a letter written by Robert Frost to Wallace Stevens in July 1935, included in The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 3, edited by Mark Richardson et al., which will be published next month by ...

For the first time in the history of its Square Print Sale, Magnum Photos partners with an esteemed literary magazine, Granta, for its upcoming sale from April 29–May 5. The Miniaturists, a book by ...