TY - BOOK AU - Mariani,Paul L. TI - The whole harmonium: the life of Wallace Stevens SN - 9781451624373 PY - 2016/// CY - New York PB - Simon & Schuster KW - Stevens, Wallace, KW - Poets, American KW - 20th century KW - Biography N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages [415]-460) and index; The heaven of an old home: 1879-1897 -- Harvard: 1897-1900 -- Starting out: 1900-1903 -- Two versions of the American sublime: 1903-1906 -- Wing{grave}ed victory: 1907-1913 -- An explosion in a shingle factory: 1913-1916 -- The 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 -- The idea 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 -