The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
The Corrected Edition
$42.70
- Paperback
608 pages
- Release Date
18 August 2015
Summary
On the anniversary of Wallace Stevens’s death, a new edition of his Collected Poems, containing more than 150 corrections based on original manuscripts and published versions. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL.
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781101911686 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1101911689 |
| Author: | Wallace Stevens, John N. Serio, Chris Beyers |
| Publisher: | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Imprint: | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 608 |
| Release Date: | 18 August 2015 |
| Weight: | 437g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 130mm x 27mm |
| Series: | Vintage International |
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Critics Review
“After the reader has admired certain lines because Shakespeare might have written them, he begins to admire them because only Stevens could.” —Robert Fitzgerald
“One might as well argue with the Evening Star as find fault with so much wit and grace and intelligence … such an overwhelming and exquisite command both of the words and of the rhythms of our language; such charm and irony, such natural and philosophical breadth of sympathy, such dignity and magnanimity.” —Randall Jarrell
About The Author
Wallace Stevens
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.
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