The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
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| Rating | : | 4.83 (788 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0679726691 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 560 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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This definitive poetry collection, originally published in 1954 to honor Stevens on his 75th birthday, contains:- "Harmonium"- "Ideas of Order"- "The Man With the Blue Guitar"- "Parts of the World"- "Transport Summer"- "The Auroras of Autumn"- "The Rock"
A Reading of "Domination Of Black" Daniel Myers [[VIDEOID:30642151]]Wallace Stevens is really two poets, or rather, he is a poet slowly turning into a turgid metaphysician as one reads through this collection. The best of his poetry is in the earliest book here, Harmonium, with some other fine ones in the second book, Ideas of Order. - I notice that almost all the five star reviews cite and quote poems exclusively from these two early books as opposed to the four following ones and the section of poems entitled "The Rock" at the end.The poem I read here is - naturally - from the earliest book, Harmonium. It is haunting, Imagistic and disquieting. It i. "Hidden Gem" according to G. Klawitter. I had heard last year that Louis MacNeice deserves more time in the sun than he has been getting. So i bought the collected poems. Wow! What a terrific poet. The long poems may distance some readers, but I have found all of them rewarding to stick with. His style is beautifully conversational without being prosaic. He is a master technician, not quite as fine as Auden but still outstanding. His themes are often British, but I never find myself skipping a poem because I can not identify with it.. "The greatest American poet of the 20th Century" according to Richard R. Horton. Wallace Stevens is my favorite poet. This collection was prepared late in his life and is in a sense definitive, though the excellent Library of America collection is to be preferred as including a number of additional poems (including the controversial long poem "Owl's Clover"), as well as alternate versions of some poems, juvenilia, and also Stevens's essays.Stevens is known, it seems to me, in two separate ways. In the popular sense, he is known for a series of remarkable early poems, in most cases not terribly long, notable for striking images and quite beautiful prosody. Of these poems the most famo
Academic Discourse At Havana Add This To Rhetoric Adult Epigram The American Sublime Analysis Of A Theme Anatomy Of Monotony Anecdote Of Canna Anecdote Of Men By The Thousand Anecdote Of The Jar Anecdote Of The Prince Of Peacocks Angel Surrounded By Paysans Anglais Mort A Florence Another Weeping Woman Anything Is Beautiful If You Say It Is The Apostrophe To Vincentine Arcades Of Philadelphia The Past Arrival At The Waldorf Asides On The Oboe Attempt To Discover Life The Auroras Of Autumn Autumn Refrain The Bagatelles The Madrigals Banal Sojourn Bantams In Pine-woods The Bed Of Old John Zeller The Beginning The Bird With The Coppery, Keen Claws The Blue Buildings In The Summer Air Botanist On Alp (n.1) Botanist On Alp (no.2) The Bouquet Bouquet Of Belle Scavoir Bouquet Of Roses In Sunlight The Brave Man Burghers Of Petty Death The Candle A Saint Celle Qui
Bates, 1989). Mr. Wallace Stevens was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, on October 2, 1879, and died in Hartford, Connecticut, on August 2, 1955. Although he had contributed to the Harvard Advocate while in college, he began to gain general recognition only when Harriet Monroe included four of his poems in a sepcial 1914 wartime issue of Poetry. Harmonium, his first volume of poems, was published i