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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instanceOf poetry collection
author Wallace Stevens NERFINISHED
authorStyle dense philosophical reflection
highly figurative language
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
followsWork Harmonium NERFINISHED
Ideas of Order (1935 limited edition) NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
Farewell to Florida NERFINISHED
The American Sublime NERFINISHED
The Countryman NERFINISHED
The Greenest Continent NERFINISHED
The Idea of Order at Key West NERFINISHED
The Man with the Blue Guitar (early version) NERFINISHED
The Place of the Solitaires NERFINISHED
The Pleasures of Merely Circulating NERFINISHED
The Reader NERFINISHED
The Sail of Ulysses NERFINISHED
The Sun This March NERFINISHED
hasSetting American coastal landscapes
Florida NERFINISHED
Key West NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
partOf Wallace Stevens’s poetic oeuvre
periodInAuthorCareer early middle period of Wallace Stevens
precedesWork The Man with the Blue Guitar and Other Poems NERFINISHED
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