TY - BOOK AU - Mariani,Paul L. TI - The whole harmonium: the life of Wallace Stevens SN - 9781451624373 (hardback) AV - PS3537.T4753 Z6783 2016 U1 - 811/.52B 23 PY - 2016/// CY - New York PB - Simon & Schuster KW - Stevens, Wallace, KW - Poets, American KW - 20th century KW - Biography KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary KW - bisacsh KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The Heaven of an Old Home: 1879-1897 -- Harvard: 1897-1900 -- New York: Starting Out: 1900-1903 -- Two Versions of the American Sublime: 1903-1906 -- Wingeƌd Victory: 1907-1913 -- An Explosion in a Shingle Factory: 1913-1916 -- Yhe Eye of the Blackbird: 1916-1918 -- Hartford on the Harmonium: 1919-1921 -- The Comedian as the Letter C: 1921-1923 -- A Baby Among Us: 1923-1934 -- Ideas of Order at Key West: 1934-1936 -- The Man with the Blue Guitar: 1936-1937 -- The Noble Rider and the Sound of Words: 1938-1941 -- The Son Restores the Father: 1941-1945 -- Farewell to an Idea: 1944-1947 -- The Eye's Plain Version: 1948-1949 -- The Obscurity of an Order: 1950-1951 -- A New Knowledge of Reality: 1952-1954 -- A Final Seriousness: 1954-1955 N2 - "A perceptive, insightful biography of perhaps the most important American poet of the twentieth century, Wallace Stevens, by an accomplished biographer and poet who traces Stevens's lifelong artistic quest"-- ER -