It’s a big clue, I think, that Wallace Stevens was a museum goer who loved the formal near-abstractions of the Swiss painter Paul Klee (1879 – 1940). ![]() In private life he was a discreetly, resolutely unhappy husband he was a post-religious modernist who seems to have reversed field and chosen a Catholic baptism on his deathbed. ![]() He was an aloof patrician and sometimes pugnacious martini drinker. Her cool sage of Hartford was a Harvard-educated lawyer and vice president of the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company. ![]() Helen Vendler, the eminent “close reader,” gifts us here in her Harvard office with a short course on her “closest” poet.
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