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This author asked if a poem is “peculiar and general” in a manifesto that describes Phoebus’s death with the line “the death of one God is the death of all.” The speaker of a poem by this author encourages a woman to “take the moral law and make a nave of it” and describes how “fictive things / wink as they will.” “Must Be Abstract” is a section of a manifesto by this author on creating (*) “supreme fiction,” an (10[1])idea referenced in his poem “A High-Toned Old Christian (10[1])Woman.” The beauty of “inflections” (10[1])and “innuendos” are mentioned in a poem by this author whose title creature whirls “in the autumn winds” and is not noticed by the “thin men of Haddam.”For 10 points, name this American poet of “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.” ■END■ (0[1])

ANSWER: Wallace Stevens
<Literature - American Literature>
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