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Wallace Stevens's "Absolute Music"
Ciardi, John | October 16, 1954 issue

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The article focuses on the book "Collected Poems," by Wallace Stevens. The poet Wallace Stevens is not unique in having outrun the audience, but he is certainly one poet of unquestionable major stature to have separated himself by so great a distance. As far as the general reader, whoever, that may be, is concerned, Stevens is American poetry's great unread. Stevens's failure to reach the audience is a direct consequence, in some part, of his refusal to be a salesman and platform stumper for his poems and, rather more, of his absolute insistence that imagination is more real than reality.

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COLLECTED Poems (Book); STEVENS, Wallace, 1879-1955; BOOKS; POETRY; POETS; AUTHORS
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