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Tag: Wallace Stevens
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Nation & World
Poetic wandering
This walking tour pairs classic Harvard landmarks with a sampling of the poets connected to the University — all in honor of National Poetry Month.
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Nation & World
Is that Wallace Stevens?
Helen Vendler joined a Woodberry Poetry Room event to celebrate the recent discovery of recordings of readings by Wallace Stevens circa 1954.
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Nation & World
Love Poems
Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory Jorie Graham celebrated the legacy of Harvard poets such as T.S. Eliot, E. E. Cummings, and Wallace Stevens, with a student performance of their verse in “Over the Centuries: Poetry at Harvard (A Love Story).”
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Nation & World
Poetry in motion
Something about Harvard, one of the world’s most rigorous universities also helps poets to blossom. It has a lyric legacy that spans hundreds of years and helped to shape the world’s literary canon.
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Nation & World
Literary Luminaries
James R. Russell Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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Nation & World
Among the missing
Harvard Extension School instructor Sarah Braunstein’s new novel “The Sweet Relief of Missing Children” plumbs the vulnerability of childhood.
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Nation & World
The Poetics of the Everyday: Creative Repetition in Modern American Verse
Siobhan Phillips, a junior fellow in Harvard’s Society of Fellows, revisits those well-known poetic masters — Stevens, Frost, Bishop, and Merrill — and analyzes how they transformed quotidian rituals into lyrical fodder.
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Nation & World
Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill
Kingsley Porter University Professor Helen Vendler, a venerable critic, takes another crack at the 20th century’s greatest poets’ last works and how their style reflects their contemplations of death.