O Florida, Venereal Soil
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O Florida, Venereal Soil
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"O Florida, Venereal Soil" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, Harmonium. It was first published in the journal Dial, volume 73, July 1922, and is therefore in the public domain. Buttel interprets the poem as continuous with Baudelaire's sense of the opposition between the corruptibility of the flesh and the perfection of an ideal world.
The "few things for themselves" that Stevens lists in the first stanza are not philosophical generics like Aristotle's conception of what's w
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Poem by Wallace Stevens
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