The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, May 4, 2011 - Poetry - 560 pages

An essential book for all readers of poetry, and the definitive collection from the man Harold Bloom has called “the best and most representative American poet." 

Originally published in 1954 to honor Stevens’s seventy-fifth birthday, the book was rushed into print for the occasion and contained scores of errors. These have now been corrected in one place for the first time by Stevens scholars John N. Serio and Christopher Beyers, based on original editions and manuscripts.

The Collected Poems is the one volume that Stevens intended to contain all the poems he wished to preserve, presented in the way he wanted. It is an enduring monument to his dazzling achievement.

 

Selected pages

Contents

Earthy Anecdote
3
The Snow Man
9
Nuances of a Theme by Williams
18
The Doctor of Geneva
24
Concerning the Thunderstorms of Yucatan
30
From the Misery of Don Joost
46
A HighToned Old Christian Woman
59
Explanation
72
Loneliness in Jersey City
210
The Candle a Saint
223
Yellow Afternoon
236
On the Adequacy of Landscape
243
Asides on the Oboe
250
MontrachetleJardin
260
Contrary Theses 1
266
Oak Leaves Are Hands
272

Six Significant Landscapes
73
Jasmines Beautiful Thoughts underneath the Willow
79
Gubbinal
85
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
92
The Surprises of the Superhuman
98
New England Verses
104
In the Clear Season of Grapes
110
Farewell to Florida
117
Dance of the Macabre Mice
123
The American Sublime
130
Evening without Angels
136
Academic Discourse at Havana
142
Nudity at the Capital
145
A Postcard from the Volcano
158
The Man with the Blue Guitar
165
A Thought Revolved
184
Parochial Theme
191
The Glass of Water
197
God Is Good It Is a Beautiful Night
285
The Motive for Metaphor
288
Poesie Abrutie
302
The Bed of Old John Zeller
326
Description without Place
339
Man Carrying Thing
350
Thinking of a Relation between the Images
356
Burghers of Petty Death
362
The Prejudice against the Past
368
A Pastoral Nun
378
The Auroras of Autumn
411
Page from a Tale
421
The Beginning
427
Saint John and the BackAche
436
Metaphor as Degeneration
444
World without Peculiarity
453
What We See Is What We Think
459
Copyright

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About the author (2011)

Wallace Stevens was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1879 and died in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1955. Harmonium, his first volume of poems, was published in 1923, and was followed by Ideas of Order (1936), The Man with the Blue Guitar (1937), Parts of a World (1942), Transport to Summer (1947), The Auroras of Autumn (1950), The Necessary Angel (a volume of essays, 1951), The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens (1954), and Opus Posthumous (1957; revised and corrected in 1989). Stevens was awarded the Bollingen Prize in Poetry of the Yale University Library for 1949. He twice won the National Book Award in Poetry and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1955. From 1916 on, he was associated with the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company, of which he became vice president in 1934.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
AuthorWallace Stevens
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011
ISBN0307791874, 9780307791870
Length560 pages
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