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Encyclopedia entry: Man with the Blue Guitar, The
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- The Oxford Companion to American Literature
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Man with the Blue Guitar, The,
title poem of a collection by
Wallace Stevens
, published in 1937.
Divided into 33 parts, the poem, in four‐stress unrhymed couplets, is constructed like variations played on a guitar. Suggested by Picasso's use of a guitar and ...
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Article: Wallace Stevens and the mode of the ordinary.
Twentieth Century Literature;
March 22, 2008 ;
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... ... twentieth-century poet attended more to daily routine than did Wallace Stevens. (1) From a 1927 letter that outlines his schedule (Collected ... celebrate democratic life. Beginning with "The Man with the Blue Guitar" and culminating in "The Auroras of Autumn," Stevens ...
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