On Wallace Stevens birthday, revisit Peter Schjeldahl on the twentieth-century American poet who invested slight subjects (the weather, often) with oracular gravitas, and grand ones (death, frequently) with capering humor.
Stevens, in 1954: the quintessential American poet of the twentieth century.Paul Mariani’s excellent new book, “The Whole Harmonium: The Life of Wallace Stevens” , is a thrilling story of a mind, which emerges from a dispiriting story of a man. It’s hard to think of a more vivid illustration of T. S. Eliot’s principle of the separation between “the man who suffers and the mind which creates.
Something like a flame comes off the page of “The Whole Harmonium” when Mariani quotes lines from Stevens’s first published mature poetry, a waltz-timed passage that begins, “An odor from a star.” It appeared in 1914, when Stevens was thirty-four. Up to that point in the story, we have attended the growth of a restless child into a skittish adult. Thereafter, the book switches back and forth between Stevens’s seraphic art and his plodding life.
He also had a hunger for erudition, expressed in precocious poems, essays, and orations. In 1897, he enrolled at Harvard, where he studied closely with the humanist philosopher George Santayana, debating matters of belief and even exchanging sonnets on the subject.
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