Wallace Stevens — a remark

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“Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.”

Treats style as the thing itself rather than an ornament laid on · Essay, Two or Three Ideas

About Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens

2 October 1879–2 August 1955

Wallace Stevens stands as one of the most enigmatic and profound voices in American poetry—a philosophical poet who balanced a successful corporate career with the creation of some of the most intellectually challenging and aesthetically innovative verse of the 20th century. His poetry, characterized by its luxuriant…

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