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Harmonium is a book of poetry by U.S. poet Wallace Stevens. His first book, it was published in 1923 by Knopf in an edition of 1500 copies. He was in middle age at that time, forty-four years old. The collection comprises 85 poems, ranging in length from just a few lines ( Life Is Motion ) to several hundred ( The Comedian as the Letter C ). See footnote 1 for the table of contents.[1] Harmonium was reissued in 1931 with three poems omitted and fourteen new poems added.[2]

In 1923, when Wallace Stevens’ Harmonium was published, the French Symbolists— Charles Baudelaire, Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, and Jules Laforgue—were being assimilated as influences and models in English poetry as well, and the imagist movement had not yet run its course. Because Stevens exhibited the tangential imagery, elisions, and regard for symbolic order of the first group and the concentrated exactness of the second, most readers found little in his poetry to link it with the native tradition. Instead, they...

Educated at Harvard College and New York Law School, Wallace Stevens lived in Hartford, Connecticut, most of his adult life, working at an insurance company. He wrote poems in the evenings, and on his way to and from work. Harmonium is an unusual first book

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