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The Emperor of Ice-Cream
Poem written by Wallace Stevens
The Emperor of Ice-Cream
"The Emperor of Ice-Cream" is a poem by Wallace Stevens, from his first collection of poetry, Harmonium (1923). Stevens' biographer, Paul Mariani, identifies the poem as one of Stevens' personal favorites from Harmonium. The poem "wears a deliberately commonplace costume", he wrote in a letter, "and yet seems to me to contain something of the essential gaudiness of poetry; that is the reason why I like it".
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