Stevens, Wallace 1879-1955

Overview

Works:	2,058 works in 4,307 publications in 6 languages and 180,822 library holdings
Genres:	Poetry Criticism, interpretation, etc Biography Records and correspondence Musical settings Biographies Juvenile works Art music Songs Scores
Roles:	Author, Lyricist, Performer, Narrator, Other, Creator, Author of introduction, Dedicatee, Illustrator, Editor, Honoree
Classifications:	PS3537.T4753, 811.52

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Wallace Stevens

Collected poetry and prose by Wallace Stevens( Book )
Wallace Stevens; a collection of critical essays by Marie Borroff( Book )
Part of nature, part of us : modern American poets by Helen Vendler( Book )
Wallace Stevens : the poems of our climate by Harold Bloom( Book )
The Columbia history of American poetry by Jay Parini( Book )

On extended wings : Wallace Stevens' longer poems by Helen Vendler( Book )
Wallace Stevens by William A Burney( Book )
Wallace Stevens by William York Tindall( Book )
Wallace Stevens : a celebration by Wallace Stevens( Book )
Wallace Stevens and the symbolist imagination by Michel Benamou( Book )
Wallace Stevens: imagination and faith by Adalaide Kirby Morris( Book )
A reader's guide to Wallace Stevens by Eleanor Cook( Book )
The collected poems of Wallace Stevens by Wallace Stevens( Book )
Wallace Stevens : the plain sense of things by James Longenbach( Book )
Selected poems by Wallace Stevens( Book )
Letters of Wallace Stevens by Wallace Stevens( Book )
The American sublime by Mary Arensberg( Book )
Beleaguered poets and leftist critics : Stevens, Cummings, Frost, and Williams in the 1930s by Milton A Cohen( Book )
Wallace Stevens and the apocalyptic mode by Malcolm Woodland( Book )
Wallace Stevens and the limits of reading and writing by Bart Eeckhout( Book )

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Most widely held works by Wallace Stevens

The collected poems of Wallace Stevens by Wallace Stevens( Book )

206 editions published between 1923 and 2015 in 3 languages and held by 4,064 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, first published in 1954, reflects the poet's deep engagement in art and life

American poetry : the twentieth century( Book )

1 edition published in 2000 in English and held by 2,361 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Contains over 1500 poems by more than 200 well-known American poets, including Langston Hughes, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, and Wallace Stevens

Opus posthumous by Wallace Stevens( Book )

94 editions published between 1957 and 1990 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,152 WorldCat member 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 )

59 editions published between 1942 and 2013 in English and held by 1,557 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Necessary Angel by Wallace Stevens "In this book, the first collection of his prose works, he accounts in scintillating language for the peculiarly modern and sometimes deliquescent fervor that has prompted his poems. Few poets have written so characteristically about their own craft." 'Perspective'U.S.A. "These are rich essays, simply constructed yet richly and elegantly written." 'Hayden Carruth, The Nation "The most welcome attribute of the book is its humane good sense, equally manifest whether Stevens is discussing a desolate Pennsylvania churchyard. Plato's images or the personalities of those who prefer a drizzle in Venice to a hard rain in Hartford.' 'New Republic "It is a rare pleasure to breathe the atmosphere of confidence and wholeness which distinguishes the world of Wallace Stevens. Here we are refreshed by certainty without fragmentariness, by joyous possibilities without dishonesty. Here we find a moral and philosophical center through which reality may be repossessed and re-created with each new poetic act." 'C. Roland Wagner, The Hudson Revie

The palm at the end of the mind : selected poems and a play by Wallace Stevens( Book )

49 editions published between 1967 and 1990 in 3 languages and held by 1,528 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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Six American poets : an anthology by Joel Conarroe( Book )

3 editions published in 1991 in English and held by 1,120 WorldCat member 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

Letters of Wallace Stevens by Wallace Stevens( Book )

50 editions published between 1966 and 1996 in English and held by 1,091 WorldCat member 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

Harmonium by Wallace Stevens( Book )

57 editions published between 1923 and 2015 in 5 languages and held by 989 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Souvenirs and prophecies : the young Wallace Stevens by Holly Stevens( Book )

5 editions published in 1977 in English and Undetermined and held by 826 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

An account of Stevens' early life, incorporating his journal and other writings

Selected poems by Wallace Stevens( Book )

78 editions published between 1943 and 2015 in English and Undetermined and held by 679 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The first new selection of this acclaimed poet's work in nearly twenty years - now in paperback - is a rich reminder to poetry readers of his lasting contribution and his unending ability to puzzle, fascinate, and delight us

The auroras of autumn by Wallace Stevens( Book )

13 editions published between 1950 and 1952 in English and held by 551 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A paper zoo : a collection of animal poems by modern American poets by Renée Karol Weiss( Book )

1 edition published in 1968 in English and held by 461 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A collection of sophisticated animal poems by well known poets about such things as naming cats, a singing bird, and a slow-moving sloth

Voices & visions( Visual )

15 editions published between 1988 and 2009 in English and held by 459 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

College course in American poetry presents the lives and poetry of 13 major poets

Transport to summer by Wallace Stevens( Book )

13 editions published between 1947 and 1951 in English and Undetermined and held by 451 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

50 collected songs by Ned Rorem( )

4 editions published in 2008 in English and held by 409 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Parts of a world by Wallace Stevens( Book )

14 editions published between 1942 and 1951 in English and held by 400 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The ambient air ; Soundshots ; Full circle by Louise Talma( )

5 editions published between 2005 and 2006 in English and held by 334 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Wallace Stevens reading his poems by Wallace Stevens( Recording )

24 editions published between 1956 and 1987 in 3 languages and held by 329 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Wallace Stevens reads his poetry

A mind of winter : the music of George Benjamin by George Benjamin( )

4 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 306 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Collected poetry and prose by Wallace Stevens( Book )

18 editions published between 1997 and 2010 in English and held by 74 WorldCat member 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

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