What does /lit/ think of Wallace Stevens?

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>>7676463
i understand all his predecessors, contemporaries and followers but not him eh

I feel about the same way as I do about Yeats. Some really gorgeous poems, some which get bogged down in his particular conception of what poetry should be (return to the things themselves yadda yadda)

he looks like a normal guy

Pretty good but doesn't captivate me the way he does a lot of people. A friend of mine (who is a decent poet) loves his work and shows me stuff a lot, but I am not really drawn in like I am by my favorite poets.

the emperor of ice-cream; the snow man; & the ideal of order at key west are enjoyable enough.