COL POEMS-STEVENS V180 - Softcover

Stevens, Wallace

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0394711807 ISBN 13: 9780394711805

Publisher: Vintage, 1982

Synopsis

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"

About this title

Review:

"'One of the most considerable poets of the last hundred years... Poems that are as distinguished as any written this century.' Thom Gunn, London Magazine"

About the Author:

Louis MacNeice was born in Belfast in 1907, the son of a Church of Ireland rector, later a bishop. He was educated in England at Sherborne, Marlborough and Merton College, Oxford. His first book of poems, Blind Fireworks, appeared in 1929, and he subsequently worked as a translator, literary critic, playwright, autobiographer, BBC producer and feature writer. The Burning Perch, his last volume of poems, appeared shortly before his death in 1963.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0394711807
• ISBN 13: 9780394711805
• Binding: Paperback