By Barbara Ginader

Wallace Stevens was an insurance executive and a poet. He was very influenced by painters (eg. Picasso’s “The Old Guitarist”). David Hockney published an illustrated version of Stevens’ “Man with the Blue Guitar” - poet inspired by painter, painter inspired by poet.

1. “Asides on the Oboe”

2. “A High-Toned Old Christian Woman”

3. “Sunday Morning”

4. “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”

5. Not a poem, but his entire Adagia

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