Snap among the Witherlings
Michael Hofmann: Wallace Stevens, 22 September 2016
The Whole Harmonium: The Life of Wallace Stevens
by Paul Mariani.
Simon and Schuster, 512 pp., £23, May 2016,978 1 4516 2437 3 Show More
by Paul Mariani.
Simon and Schuster, 512 pp., £23, May 2016,
“... in insurance; wife and daughter; quiet life in Hartford, Connecticut; never travelled outside North America; the usual run of prizes towards the end of his life. I’ve never felt the need for a biography. And now that I’ve read this one by Mariani, a serial biographer of poets (he has notched already, among Americans, Williams, Crane, Lowell and ... ”