Ideas of Order

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Ideas of Order is a 1936 poetry collection by American modernist poet Wallace Stevens, noted for its philosophical meditations on imagination, reality, and the sea.

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Ideas of Order canonical 3
Ideas of Order (1935 limited edition) 1

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instanceOf poetry collection
author Wallace Stevens
authorStyle dense philosophical reflection
highly figurative language
countryOfOrigin United States
followsWork Harmonium
Ideas of Order (1935 limited edition)
linked to: Ideas of Order
genre modernist poetry
hasCriticalReception recognized as deepening Stevens’s exploration of imagination and reality
hasForm lyric poetry
meditative poem
hasInfluenceOn 20th-century American poetic theory
philosophical readings of Wallace Stevens
hasMotive exploration of how imagination orders reality
investigation of the role of the observer
hasPoem Academic Discourse at Havana
Farewell to Florida
The American Sublime
The Countryman
The Greenest Continent
The Idea of Order at Key West
The Man with the Blue Guitar (early version)
The Place of the Solitaires
The Pleasures of Merely Circulating
The Reader
The Sail of Ulysses
The Sun This March
hasSetting American coastal landscapes
Florida
Key West
linked to: Key West, Florida
influenced later critical discussions of modernist epistemology in poetry
language English
literaryMovement Modernism
medium print
notableFor philosophical meditations on imagination
philosophical meditations on reality
philosophical meditations on the sea
originalPublisherLocation New York City
partOf Wallace Stevens’s poetic oeuvre
periodInAuthorCareer early middle period of Wallace Stevens
precedesWork The Man with the Blue Guitar and Other Poems
publicationYear 1936
publisher Alfred A. Knopf
theme American landscape
art and perception
imagination
order and chaos
reality
relationship between mind and world
sea imagery

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Wallace Stevens notableWork Ideas of Order
Ideas of Order followsWork Ideas of Order (1935 limited edition)
linked to: Ideas of Order