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Author Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955.

Title Selected poems / Wallace Stevens ; edited by John N. Serio.

Publication Info. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  811.52 ST47    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  811 STEVENS    Check Shelf
Edition 1st ed.
Description xxii, 327 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-324) and index.
Contents Introduction / John N. Serio -- from Harmonium (1923, 1931) -- from Ideas of order (1936) -- from The man with the blue guitar and other poems (1937) -- from Parts of a world (1942) -- from Transport to Summer (1947) -- from The auroras of Autumn (1950) -- from "Three academic pieces" in The necessary angel (1951) -- from The rock in The collected poems (1954) -- from Opus posthumous (1957, 1989).
Summary "A new edition - the first in nearly twenty years - of the work of Wallace Stevens, a founding father of contemporary American poetry, with a dazzling range of work that is at once emotional and intellectual. As John N. Serio reminds us in his elegant introduction, Stevens has written more persuasively than any other poet about the significance of poetry itself in everyday life: "The imaginationfrequently synonymous with the act of the mind, or poetry, for Stevens - is what gives life its savor, its sanction, its sacred quality.""
"This rich and thorough selection - published in the 130th anniversary year of Stevens's birth - carries us from the explosion of Harmonium in 1923 to the maturity of The Auroras of Autumn in 1950 and the magisterial Collected Poems published by Knopf in 1954. To be drawn in once more by "The Emperor of Ice-Cream," "Sunday Morning," "The Idea of Order at Key West," "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction," to name only a few, is to experience again the mystery of a poet who calls us to a higher music and to a deeper understanding of our vast and inarticulate interior world." "This essential volume for all readers of poetry reminds us of Stevens's nearly unparalleled contribution to the art form and his unending ability to puzzle, fascinate, and delight us."--Jacket.
Subject Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955 -- Literary collections.
Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955. (OCoLC)fst00040329
Poetry.
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01067691
Genre/Form Literary collections. (OCoLC)fst01423811
Added Author Serio, John N., 1943-
Added Title Poems. Selections
ISBN 9780307280473
0307280470
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