Sunday Morning (poem)

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"Sunday Morning" is a poem from Wallace Stevens' first book of poetry, Harmonium. Published in part in the November 1915 issue of Poetry, then in full in 1923 in Harmonium, it is now in the public domain. The first published version can be read at the Poetry web site:[1] The literary critic Yvor Winters considered "Sunday Morning" "the greatest American poem of the twentieth century and... certainly one of the greatest contemplative poems in English" (Johnson, 100).[2]

  1. ^ [1] Editor Harriet Monroe chose five of the eight cantos Stevens sent her for the journal Poetry in 1915.
  2. ^ Alison Johnson. Wallace Stevens: A Dual Life as Poet and Insurance Executive. Topsham, Maine: Cumberland Press,2012.