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I placed a jar in Tennessee,
And round it was, upon a hill.
It made the slovenly wilderness
Surround that hill. - Wallace Stevens Attribution: Wallace Stevens (1879–1955), U.S. poet. Anecdote of the Jar (l. 1–4). . . Collected Poems [Stevie Smith]. James MacGibbon, ed. (1976) New Directions.

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Encyclopedia:

• Stevens, Wallace (The Oxford Companion to American Literature)
• Stevens, Wallace (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)

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• Wallace Stevens (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
• Wallace Stevens (Critical Survey of Poetry)
• Wallace Stevens (Cyclopedia of World Authors)

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• Wallace Stevens is born
• Wallace Stevens publishes The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
• Wallace Stevens dies
• Wallace Stevens receives the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens