ENGL 3007 Lecture Notes - Wallace Stevens, The Snow Man, Marcel Duchamp
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Parts of the world: audio biography of stevens. Gave important lectures at harvard and yale; won several prizes (pulitzer). Wasn"t advancing in his law career and found a way to advance by moving into. Wasn"t advancing in his law career and found a way to advance by moving into insurance. insurance. Writes when he is young, takes a break, and then before 1920 he begins writing again: the poetry is. Writes when he is young, takes a break, and then before 1920 he begins writing again: the poetry is amazing and makes up most of harmonium. Still a prolific/respected poet until his death. amazing and makes up most of harmonium. Seems to regard human individuals as perceiving the world from. Seems to regard human individuals as perceiving the world from a position of tension. His interests shift between what happens when the world operates on us and what a position of tension.