The Surprises of the Superhuman
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title:
The Surprises of the Superhuman
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"The Surprises of the Superhuman" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book
of poetry, Harmonium. It
was first published in 1918, so it is in the public
domain. This poem was Section V of the poem-sequence "Lettres d'un Soldat"
(1918). It was extracted as "The Surprises of the Superhuman" for the
second edition of Harmonium, along with "Negation"; the two poems
adjoin each other near the end of the book. Both poems reflect
Stevens's reading of Nietzsche. Bates comments that it contrasts the
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Poem by Wallace Stevens
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2020-12-22T05:40:00Z
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