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Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
In the Carolinas
The lilacs wither in the Carolinas.
Already the butterflies flutter above the cabins.
Already the new-born children interpret love
In the voices of mothers.
Timeless mothers,
How is it that your aspic nipples
For once vent honey?
The pine-tree sweetens my body
The white iris beautifies me.
[(from Harmonium, 1923, 1931)
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, 1982]
Copyright (c) 1923, 1931, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1942, 1943, 1944,
1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1954 Wallace Stevens
Bibliography
- Bloom, Harold, Wallace Stevens: The Poems of Our Climate (Ithaca, Cornell UP, 1977)
- -----, ed., Wallace Stevens (1985)
- Byers, Thomas B., What I Cannot Say: Self, Word, and World in Whitman, Stevens, and Merwin (Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1989)
- Doggett, Frank, Stevens: Poetry of Thought (1966)
- Doggett, Frank, and Buttell, Robert, eds., Wallace Stevens: A Celebration (1980)
- Filreis, A., Wallace Stevens and the Actual World (1991)
- Gelpi, A., Wallace Stevens (1990)
- Leggett, B., Early Stevens (1992)
- Lensing, G. S., Wallace Stevens (1986; repr. 1991)
- Litz, A. Walton, Introspective Voyager: The Poetic Development of Wallace Stevens (1972)
- Richardson, Joan, Wallace Stevens: The Early Years, 1879-1923 (New York: Beech Tree Books, 1986)
- -----, Wallace Stevens: The Later Years, 1923-1955 (New York: Beech Tree Books, 1988)
- Vendler, Helen H., On Extended Wings (1969)
- -----, Wallace Stevens (1984)
I've compiled the above information referring to some standard reference materials, including The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry, Grolier Encyclopedia, etc.
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