when was thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird written
October 1917
title: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird text: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, "Harmonium." The poem consists of thirteen short, separate sections, each of which mentions blackbirds in some way. Although inspired by haiku, none of the sections meets the traditional definition of haiku. It was first published in October 1917 by Alfred Kreymborg in "Others: An Anthology of the New Verse" and two months later in the December issue of "". The literary scholar Beverly Maeder writing for the "Cambridge Companion to Wallace Stevens" speaks of this poem title: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird text: 2015 novella by Colum McCann entitled "Thirteen Ways of Looking". Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, "Harmonium." The poem consists of thirteen short, separate sections, each of which mentions blackbirds in some way. Although inspired by haiku, none of the sections meets the traditional definition of haiku. It was first published in October 1917 by Alfred Kreymborg in "Others: An Anthology of the New Verse" and two months later in the December issue of "". The literary scholar Beverly Maeder writing for title: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird text: of musicians, including the American contemporary music ensemble eighth blackbird which derived their name from the poem's eighth stanza which makes references to "noble accents/And lucid, inescapable rhythms", and inspired several specific compositions as well: Additionally, the title "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a..." has been endlessly paraphrased in articles (e.g. "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackout", music album-titles (e.g. "Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Goldberg"), and anywhere else a particular topic seems to bear examination from a number of different perspectives. The poem has influenced works of fiction including Ken Chowder's 1980 novel "Blackbird Days" and a title: Wallace Stevens text: his album "North Star Deserter". The song references Stevens's poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird". "The Bird with the Coppery, Keen Claws" During his lifetime, Stevens received numerous awards in recognition of his work, including: Wallace Stevens Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was an American modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and he spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his "Collected Poems" in 1955. Stevens' title: Wallace Stevens text: "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird". Stevens was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1879 into a Lutheran family in the line of John Zeller, his maternal great-grandfather, who had settled in the Susquehanna Valley in 1709 as a religious refugee. The son of a prosperous lawyer, Stevens attended Harvard as a non-degree three-year special student from 1897 to 1900. According to his biographer Milton Bates, Stevens was introduced personally to the philosopher George Santayana living in Boston at the time and was strongly influenced by Santayana's book "Interpretations of Poetry and Religion" (1900). Holly Stevens, his daughter, recalled her