Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry and Prose
Stevens, Wallace; Frank Kermode & Joan Richardson selected the contents & wrote the notes for this edition
Language: English
Published by Library of America, 1997
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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SUPERB: CLASSIC: ASTONISHING: EXUBERANT: MEDITATIVE: INSPRING: AUTHORITATIVE: NEW LOA hardcover First Edition (Orig. 1997) First Printing, NEW impeccable LOA slipcase w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, NEW blue silk-finish Brillianta fabric-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & titles & LOA colophon handsomely gold-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE distinctive white-on-blue LOA patterned card-stock end-papers, NEW Smyth-sewn binding w/ tight signatures & blue-white-checked banding at spine-caps w/ blue silk page-marking ribbon bound from the top, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in clear 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB unblemished acid-free Ecusta Nyallite archival paper * CONTENTS: Poems, Plays, Essays, Uncollected Prose, Notebooks (excerpts), Journals & Letters; Chronology, Note on the Texts, Notes, Index of Poem Titles & First Lines * 5.0" x 8.18" x 1.28' * 0.70 kg, xxii+1034 (1056) pp / Splip-case: 5.36" x 8.48" x 1.52 * 0.76 kg * ABOUT THE BOOK: : “Undoubtedly, the single finest collection of Wallace Stevens ever produced.” — Library Journal / Wallace Stevens's unique voice combined meditative speculation & what he called "the essential gaudiness of poetry" in a body of work of astonishing profusion & exuberance, poems that have remained an inspiration & influence for generations of poets & readers. Now, for the first time, the works of America's supreme poet of the imagination are collected in one authoritative Library of America volume. Here are all of Stevens' published books of poetry, side-by-side for the first time w/ the haunting lyrics of his later years & early work that traces the development of his art. From the rococo inventiveness of "Harmonium", his first volume (including such classics as "Sunday Morning" & "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"), through "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction," "Esthétique du Mal," "The Auroras of Autumn," & the other large-scale masterpieces of his middle years, to the austere final poems of "The Rock," Stevens' poetry explores w/ unrelenting intensity the relation between the world & the human imagination, between nature as found & nature as invented, & the ways poetry mediates between them. The volume presents over 90 poems uncollected by Stevens, including early versions of often-discussed works like "The Comedian as the Letter C" & "Owl’s Clover." Also here is the most comprehensive selection of Stevens' prose writings. "The Necessary Angel" (1951), his distinguished book of essays, joins nearly 50 shorter pieces, many previously uncollected: reviews, speeches, short stories, criticism, philosophical writings, & responses to the work of T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, & other poets. The often-dazzling aphorisms Stevens gathered over the years are included, as are his plays & selections from his poetic notebooks. Rounding out the volume is a 50-year span of journal entries & letters, newly edited from manuscript sources, which provide fascinating glimpses of Stevens' thoughts on poetry & the creative process. The volume also contains explanatory notes, a detailed chronology of Stevens' life, & an essay on textual selection. * THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, & keeping permanently in print, America's best & most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, & ribbon markers, & are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via efficient USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost fee & via USPS FIRST CLASS MAIL to all international shipments at our posted rates.…
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- Title
- Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry and Prose
- Author
- Stevens, Wallace; Frank Kermode & Joan Richardson selected the contents & wrote the notes for this edition
- Publisher
- Library of America
- Publication year
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- Dust jacket
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1883011450
- ISBN 13
- 9781883011451
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Item weight
- 0.76 kilograms
Wallace Stevens’s unique voice combined meditative speculation and what he called “the essential gaudiness of poetry” in a body of work of astonishing profusion and exuberance, poems that have remained an inspiration and influence for generations of poets and readers. Now, for the first time, the works of America’s supreme poet of the imagination are collected in one authoritative Library of America volume.
Here are all of Stevens’s 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” and “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”), through “Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction,” “Esthétique 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’s 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. The volume presents over ninety 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 of Stevens’s 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 T. S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, William Carlos 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’s thoughts on poetry and the creative process.
The volume also contains explanatory notes, a detailed chronology of Stevens’ life, and an essay on textual selection.
LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
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