that of Emily Dickinson, whom he admired), [Wallace] Stevens wrote symbolic rather than transcriptive poetry. How differently might a reader take in "Burghers of Petty Death" if it had been called "A Son's Lament for His Dead Parents," or "The Snow Man" if it had been called "Stoicism in a Failed Marriage"? Like Dickinson, Stevens has won a wide audience in spite of the guard he put on his privacy, and we are now better acquainted with his sorrows.from The New York Times: The Plain Sense of Things
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