Stein, Gertrude - Margaret Dickie (essay date 1993)
Margaret Dickie (essay date 1993)
SOURCE: "Women Poets and the Emergence of Modernism," in The Columbia History of American Poetry, edited by Jay Parini, Columbia University Press, 1993, pp. 233-59.
[In the following excerpt, Dickie presents an overview of Stein's role in the early years of experimentation in Modernist poetry.]
Early recognition of Stein's importance rested largely on her prose, which formed the bulk of her published work: Three Lives (1909), Tender Buttons (1914), Geography and Plays (1922), The Making of Americans (1925). Although she was writing poetry during this period (and Tender Buttons is itself a prose poem), most of her poetry was not published until after her death, in Bee Time Vine and Other Pieces (1913-1927) (1953), Painted Lace and Other Pieces (1914-1937) (1955), and Stanzas in Meditation and Other Poems (1929-1933) (1956).
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