"Mr. Stevens is the master of a style: that is the most remarkable thing about him. His gift for combining words is baffling and fantastic but sure: even when you do not know what he is saying, you know that he is saying it well."
— Wallace Stevens

January 1, 1970

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Edmund Wilson, 1924 review of Harmonium, in The Shores of Light: A Literary Chronicle of the Twenties and Thirties (1952), p. 49