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‘The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad’ (1921) might be conceived as the first lyric of a three-part 1921 lyric sequence which has a central place in Harmonium, although it did not appear until the second edition in 1931. I would like to suggest that we should read ‘The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad’ as the first act of a three-act lyric monodrama, the second and third acts of which are respectively ‘Tea at the Palaz of Hoon’ and ‘The Snow Man’.
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© 1993 Daniel R. Schwarz
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Schwarz, D.R. (1993). ‘Spiritually Inquisitive Images’ : Stevens’s Lyric Sequence about the roetic Process. In: Narrative and Representation in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230374409_3
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