Stevens: Poems

Vendler, Helen; Helen Vendler (Selected by)

ISBN 10: 0679429115 / ISBN 13: 9780679429111

Published by Everyman's Library/ Pocket Poets/ A Borzoi Book/ Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York & Toronto, ON, Canada, 1993

About this Item

256 pp. Well-bound copy with moderate use and clean text. Front cover board punctured in two places. Cover skewed. Dust jacket shows extensive wear and rips along the front. Seller Inventory # 7iiiBb0047

Bibliographic Details

Title: Stevens: Poems

Publisher: Everyman's Library/ Pocket Poets/ A Borzoi Book/ Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York & Toronto, ON, Canada

Publication Date: 1993

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Poor

About this title

Synopsis:

These Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover editions are popular for their compact size and reasonable price. Poems: Stevens contains a selection, chosen by Helen Vendler, of over sixty of Stevens's poems, revealing with renewed force his status as our supreme acrobat of the imagination.

About the Author:

Wallace Stevens was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, on October 2, 1879, and died in Hartford, Connecticut, on August 2, 1955. Although he had contributed to the Harvard Advocate while in college, he began to gain general recognition only when Harriet Monroe included four of his poems in a special 1914 wartime issue of Poetry. Harmonium, his first volume of poems, was published in 1923, and was followed by Ideas of Order (1936), The Man with the Blue Guitar (1937), Parts of a World (1942), Transport to Summer (1947), The Auroras of Autumn (1950), The Necessary Angel (a volume of essays, 1951), The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens (1954), and Opus Posthumous (first published in 1957, edited by Samuel French Morse; a new, revised, and corrected edition by Milton J. Bates, 1989). Mr. Stevens was awarded the Bollingen Prize in Poetry of the Yale University Library for 1949. In 1951 he won the National Book Award in Poetry for The Auroras of Autumn, in 1955 he won it a second time for The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, which was also awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1955. From 1916 on, he was associated with the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company, of which he became vice president in 1934.