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- Explicating Poetry: World Poets (Critical Survey of Poetry: World Poets)
- English and American Poetry in the Twentieth Century (Critical Survey of Poetry: Topical Essays)
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- Author: Wallace Stevens
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Wallace Stevens’s significant achievement is in his poetry, but he did write several experimental one-act verse plays, a number of essays on poetry, and numerous letters and journal notes that contain perceptive comments on his work. In 1916, he published in the magazine Poetry his first one-act verse play, Three Travelers Watch a Sunrise, for which he received a special prize from Poetry; in 1920, the play was performed at the Provincetown Playhouse in New York. A second verse play, Carlos Among the Candles, was staged...
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