Wallace Stevens: The Early Years, 1879-1923
by Richardson, Joan
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0688054013
- ISBN 13
- 9780688054014
- Seller
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Kutztown, Pennsylvania, United States
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Synopsis
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 spent most of his life working as a lawyer for an insurance company in Connecticut. 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," "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird."
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- Bookseller
- Saucony Book Shop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 040363
- Title
- Wallace Stevens: The Early Years, 1879-1923
- Author
- Richardson, Joan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0688054013
- ISBN 13
- 9780688054014
- Publisher
- Beech Tree Books-William Morrow
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1986
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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