Books : The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
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by: Wallace Stevens
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.52
EAN: 9780679726692
ISBN: 0679726691
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 560
Publication Date: February 19, 1990
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: February 19, 1990
Sales Rank: 33241
Studio: Vintage
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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'
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Rating: - an exquisite enclopadeic and imaginative mind
They enter the new world naked,
cold, uncertain of all
save that they enter. All about them
the cold, familiar wind--
--from William Carlos Williams's
Spring and All (1923)
Looking at Sandro Botticelli (1444-1510)'s Birth Of Venus (ca. 1482), one can actually feel the fresh and fragrant breeze, the golden light, the bounty; the Italian painter is approaching 40 when he paints this. Reading Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)'s "The Paltry Nude Starts ... Read More
Rating: - The greatest American poet of the 20th Century
Wallace Stevens is my favorite poet. This collection was prepared late in his life and is in a sense definitive, though the excellent Library of America collection is to be preferred as including a number of additional poems (including the controversial long poem "Owl's Clover"), as well as alternate versions of some poems, juvenilia, and also Stevens's essays.
Stevens is known, it seems to me, in two separate ways. In the popular sense, he is known for a series of remarkable early poems, ... Read More
Rating:  - This is OK but there are better Stevens Collections
This collection lacks 22 poems which appeared in "The Palm at the End of the Mind", Holly Stevens carefully edited selection highly approved of by Harold Bloom. Missing are "Of Mere Being", "A Child Asleep in Its Own Life" and "For an Old Woman in a Wig" to name but three. It leaves out the added lines of "The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad". It lacks an index of first lines. If you're going to buy a book of Stevens' poems spend the extra $10 and get the magnificent Library of America "Collected Poetry ... Read More
Rating: - A poet's eye
"Her terrace was the sand/And the palms and the twilight" -- and those are only the first two lines. Dipping into surrealism and imbued with spirituality, his poetry is compiled into "The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens," which includes seven compilations of his work.
Over his lifetime, Stevens wrote several books of poetry, but his exquisite poems are best taken by themselves: the lush grandeur of "Sunday Morning," the hymnlike "Le Monocle De Mon Oncle," and the humid grittiness of "O ... Read More
Rating: - The great American poet of the twentieth century
Stevens is for me the great American poet of the twentieth century.
His music is the supreme music of poetry . Not since Keats is there anyone as rich in the most elaborate kind of longworded poetry.
His metaphysical meanderings may confuse but somehow find themselves justified by the memorableness of the great lines- and again the music.
No one comes close to him in the kind of deep and complicated beauty he presents- and again the music.
The meanings he makes are musical meanings, ... Read More
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