In his 60s he echoed Baudelaire's notion that beauty is inextricably linked with evil in "Esth?ique du Mal."  
His prose collection, The Necessary Angel, released when the author was 72, asserted that poetry was "the supreme fiction."  In his 60s he echoed Baudelaire's notion that beauty is inextricably linked with evil in "Esth?ique du Mal."  Later poems include "The Plain Sense of Things" and "A Quiet Normal Life," but he's better known for early works like "The Snow Man," "The Idea of Order at Key West," and "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird."  FTP, name this American author of the poems "Sunday Morning," "Peter Quince at the Clavier," and "The Emperor of Ice Cream."
His prose collection, The Necessary Angel, released when the author was 72, asserted that poetry was "the supreme fiction."  
Wallace Stevens