THE ACHIEVEMENT OF WALLACE STEVENS (287 pp.)—Edited by Ashley Brown and Robert S. Haller—Lippincott ($5).Poetry, the late Wallace Stevens was fond of saying, is the one reality in an ...

About Wallace Stevens Wallace Stevens was born in Reading, Penn ... "The Man with the Blue Guitar" (Alfred A. Knopf, 1937) and "The Necessary Angel" (Alfred A. Knopf, 1951). Stevens died on Aug ...

Waves crash and tumble. In one of Wallace Stevens’ poems, a girl sings of what is “permanent and unchanging in beauty and power beyond the disorder of the sea,” perhaps we can also sing beyond the ...

Published a century ago, the poet’s secular meditation on the Christian sabbath considers the human longing for ‘some imperishable bliss’ amid a culture of waning religiosity.