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Stevens: Poems: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets

Autor Wallace Stevens
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 oct 1993
These Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover editions are popular for their compact size and reasonable price which do not compromise content. Poems: Stevens contains a selection, chosen by Helen Vendler, of over sixty of Stevens's poems, revealing with renewed force his status as our supreme acrobat of the imagination.
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ISBN-13: 9780679429111
ISBN-10: 0679429115
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 112 x 166 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Everyman's Library
Seria Everyman's Library Pocket Poets


Notă biografică

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 theHarvard Advocatewhile in college, he began to gain general recognition only when Harriet Monroe included four of his poems in a special 1914 wartime issue ofPoetry. Harmonium, his first volume of poems, was published in 1923, and was followed byIdeas 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), andOpus Posthumous(first published in 1957, edited by Samuel French 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 forThe Auroras of Autumn, in 1955 he won it a second time forThe 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.

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Here are all of Stevens' published books of poetry, side-by-side for the first time with the haunting lyrics of his later years and early work that traces the development of his art. From the rococo inventiveness of Harmonium, his first volume (including such classics as "Sunday Morning", "Peter Quince at the Clavier", and "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"), through "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction", "Esthetique du Mal", "The Auroras of Autumn", and the other large-scale masterpieces of his middle years, to the austere final poems of "The Rock", Stevens' poetry explores with unrelenting intensity the relation between the world and the human imagination, between nature as found and nature as invented, and the ways poetry mediates between them. This volume presents over a hundred poems uncollected by Stevens, including early versions of often discussed works like "The Comedian as the Letter C" and "Owl's Clover". Also here is the most comprehensive selection available of Stevens' prose writings. The Necessary Angel (1951), his distinguished book of essays, joins nearly fifty shorter pieces, many previously uncollected: reviews, speeches, short stories, criticism, philosophical writings, and responses to the work of Eliot, Moore, Williams, and other poets. The often dazzling aphorisms Stevens gathered over the years are included, as are his plays and selections from his poetic notebooks. Rounding out the volume is a fifty-year span of journal entries and letters, newly edited from manuscript sources, which provide fascinating glimpses of Stevens' thoughts on poetry and the creative process.

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