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The Collected Poems

by Wallace Stevens

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Publisher Comments:


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"

About the Author

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 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 (first published in 1957, edited by Samuel Frued Morse; a new, revised, and corrected edition by Milton J. Bates, 1989).

Mr. Stevens was awarded the Bollingen Prize in Poetry of the Yale University Library for 1949. In 1951 he won the National Book Award in Poetry for The Auroras of Autumn, in 1955 he won it a second time for The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, which was also 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.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780679726692
Author:
Stevens, Wallace
Publisher:
Vintage Books USA
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
American
Subject:
Literature
Subject:
American - General
Subject:
Single Author *
Subject:
Poetry
Subject:
Poetry (poetic works by one author)
Subject:
20th century
Subject:
Poetry, American
Subject:
Poetry, American -- 20th century.
Copyright:
Edition Number:
Vintage Books ed.
Edition Description:
1st Vintage Books ed.
Series Volume:
no. 563
Publication Date:
February 1990
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
560
Dimensions:
8.03x5.23x1.02 in. .99 lbs.

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