Stevens, Wallace 1879-1955

The collected poems of Wallace Stevens by Wallace Stevens ( Book )
89 editions published between 1923 and 2008 in 4 languages and held by 2,888 libraries worldwide
This Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, first published in 1954, reflects the poet's deep engagement in art and life.

Collected poetry and prose by Wallace Stevens ( Book )
11 editions published in 1997 in English and held by 2,157 libraries worldwide
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.

Opus posthumous by Wallace Stevens ( Book )
62 editions published between 1957 and 2009 in 3 languages and held by 1,768 libraries worldwide
When Opus Posthumous first appeared in 1957, it was an appropriate capstone to the career of one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. It included many poems missing from Stevens's Collected Poems, along with Stevens's characteristically inventive prose and pieces for the theater. Now Milton J. Bates, the author of the acclaimed Wallace Stevens: A Mythology of Self, has edited and revised Opus Posthumous to correct the previous edition's errors and to incorporate material that has come to light since original publication. A third of the poems and essays in this edition are new to the volume. The resulting book is an invaluable literary document whose language and insights are fresh, startling, and eloquent.

The necessary angel; essays on reality and the imagination by Wallace Stevens ( Book )
31 editions published between 1942 and 1989 in English and held by 1,290 libraries worldwide

The palm at the end of the mind : selected poems and a play by Wallace Stevens ( Book )
18 editions published between 1971 and 1990 in English and held by 1,277 libraries worldwide

Letters of Wallace Stevens by Wallace Stevens ( Book )
36 editions published between 1966 and 1996 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,179 libraries worldwide
Long unavailable, now in paperback for the first time, these are the brilliant, subtle, illuminating letters of one of the great poets of the twentieth century. Wallace Stevens's famous criterion for poetry - "It should give pleasure" - informed his epistolary aesthetic as well; these letters stimulate one's appetite for poetry as they valorize the imagination and the senses. They also offer fascinating glimpses of Stevens as family man, insurance executive, connoisseur, and friend.

Six American poets : an anthology ( Book )
2 editions published in 1991 in English and held by 1,165 libraries worldwide
An anthology of 247 memorable poems by six of America's greatest poets encompasses the works of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, and Langston Hughes.

Selected poems by Wallace Stevens ( Book )
27 editions published between 1917 and 2011 in 4 languages and held by 1,144 libraries worldwide

Souvenirs and prophecies : the young Wallace Stevens by Holly Stevens ( Book )
9 editions published between 1976 and 1977 in English and held by 893 libraries worldwide

Harmonium by Wallace Stevens ( Book )
34 editions published between 1923 and 2002 in 4 languages and held by 704 libraries worldwide