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Wallace Stevens Modernism Poet

By KadeRandall
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    Lifespan of Wallace Stevens

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    T.S. Elliot, arguably the most influential figure of the modernist era is born. He exuded modernism in hi poems, story, and even films. He spurred the modernist movement and his poem, The Waste Land is still significantly infuential today.
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    Era of Modernism

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    Wallace Stevens graduates with a degree from New York Law School after attending Harvard University as an undergraduate. He practiced law for the rest of his life, while he wrote poems on the side.

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    Virginia Woolf expounds that human nature underwent a phenomanol and fundamental change "on or about December 1910." She was one of the most influential modernist poets and she saw the era of modernism coming.

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    Innovation explodes in the world in literature, art, and science. Traditional ways are starting to become distant as everything becomes "new."

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    Wallace Stevens writes his first poems called "Phases," which he sent in to a war poem competition. He did not win, but these poems were eventually published in November of that same year.

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    Wallace Stevens' poem, "Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock" is written.

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    World War I ends and America is devistated by the loss of lives and resources. Writers fell inspired by this state of depression and modernism develops.

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    William Yeats writes the poem "The Second Coming." It is one of the most influential poems of the modernist era that is uncoincidentally written in the aftermath of WWI.

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    Wallace Stevens' poem The Anecdote of a Jar is written and published in his book "Harmonium."

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    Wallace Stevens writes the poem "A High-Toned Old Christian Woman."

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    Wallace Stevens publishes his first book of poems called "Harmonium." This marks the beginning of his interest in poetry and being known in the world of poetry.

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    Stock prices rise dramatically and the Great Depression begins. This boosts the growth of Modernism in literature after the previous boost of WWI

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    Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock is first published along with all of the other poems that are also in Wallace Stevens' book, Harmonium.

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    Wallace Stevens' book Harmonium is recompiled by Knopf, and republished.

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    Wallace Stevens write his well-known poem "A Postcard from the Volcano."