The Sensuous Order, Faith and Love in the Poetry
... She is reality, and the world is ordered by her singings . . . there never was a world for her Except the one she sang and, singing made. It is essential to note the order in which Stevens' poems are arranged in his Collected Poens in discussing his version of the sensuous order. ...
... She is reality, and the world is ordered by her singings . . . there never was a world for her Except the one she sang and, singing made. It is essential to note the order in which Stevens' poems are arranged in his Collected Poens in discussing his version of the sensuous order. ...
Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was an American Modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and he spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his Collected Poems in 1955.Some of his best-known poems include ""Anecdote of the Jar,"" ""Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock,"" ""The Emperor of Ice-Cream,"" ""The Idea of Order at Key West,"" ""Sunday Morning,"" ""The Snow Man,"" and ""Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.""