. A third of the poems and essays in this edition are new to the volume. Now milton J. Bates, the author of the acclaimed wallace stevens: A Mythology of Self, has edited and revised Opus Posthumous to correct the previous edition's errors and to incorporate material that has come to light since original publication.
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The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens Vintage International
The Whole Harmonium: The Life of Wallace Stevens
Unpacking poems in language that is nearly as eloquent as the poet’s, and as clear as faithfulness allows” The New Yorker. A biography that is both deliciously readable and profoundly knowledgeable” Library Journal, starred review, The Whole Harmonium presents Stevens within the living context of his times and as the creator of a poetry that continues to shape how we understand and define ourselves.
An “incandescent…. Redefining biography of a major poet whose reputation continues to ascend” Booklist, starred review—Wallace Stevens, perhaps the most important American poet of the twentieth century. Wallace stevens 1879-1955 lived a richly imaginative life that he expressed in his poems. His first book of poems, published when he was forty-four, Harmonium, drew on his profound understanding of Modernism to create a distinctive and inimitable American idiom.
He endured an increasingly unhappy marriage, and yet he had his Dionysian side, reveling in long fishing and drinking trips to the sun-drenched tropics of Key West. He was at once both the Connecticut businessman and the hidalgo lover of all things Latin. And while he can be challenging to understand, Stevens has proven time and again to be one of the most richly rewarding poets to read.
How to Live, What to Do: Thirteen Ways of Looking at Wallace Stevens Muse Books
5 miles per second. His work records how to live, what to do in this strange new world of experience, seeing what was always seen but never seen before. Joan richardson, author of the standard two-volume critical biography of Stevens and coeditor with Frank Kermode of the Library of America edition of the Collected Poetry and Prose, offers concise, lucid captures of Stevens’s development and achievement.
How to live, what to do is an indispensable introduction to and guide through the work of a poet equal in power and sensibility to Shakespeare and Milton. She weaves the details drawn from this deep involvement into the background of American cultural history of the period. Over the ten years of researching her Stevens biography, journals, as well as his complete correspondence, Richardson read all that he read, and notebooks.
Projecting his own imagination into spacetime as “a priest of the invisible, and others, keeping abreast of the latest discoveries of Einstein, Niels Bohr, ” persistently cultivating his cosmic consciousness through reading, Max Planck, Louis de Broglie, Stevens pushed the boundaries of language into the exotic territories of relativity and quantum mechanics while at the same time honoring the continuing human need for belief in some larger order.
Like them, stevens shaped a new language, extending perception through his poems to align what Emerson called our “axis of vision” with the universe as it came to be understood during his lifetime, 1879–1955, fashioning an instrument adequate to describing a completely changed environment of fact, a span shared with Albert Einstein.
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The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination
Stevens proves himself as eloquent and scintillating in prose as in poetry, as he both analyzes and demonstrates the essential act of repossessing reality through the imagination. In this collection of essays, consummate poet Wallace Stevens reflects upon his art.
The Cambridge Companion to Wallace Stevens Cambridge Companions to Literature
With a detailed chronology and a guide to further reading, this Companion provides all the information a student or scholar of Stevens will need. An international team of distinguished contributors presents a unified picture of Stevens' poetic achievement. This companion introduces students to his work. The introduction explains why Stevens is among the world's great poets and offers specific guidance on how to read and appreciate his poetry.
Wallace stevens is a major American poet and a central figure in modernist studies and twentieth-century poetry. Other essays introduce students to the peculiarity and distinctiveness of Stevens' voice and style.
Things Merely Are: Philosophy in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens
Drawing astutely on kant, guitars, the german and english Romantics and Heidegger, Critchley argues that through its descriptions of particular things and their stubborn plainness - whether water, trees, or cats - poetry evokes the 'mereness' of things. It is this experience, he shows, that provokes the mood of calm and releases the imaginative insight we need to press back against the pressure of reality.
In a rich engagement with the poetry of Wallace Stevens, Critchley reveals that poetry also contains deep and important philosophical insight. Simon critchley argues that poetry enlarges life with a range of observation, power of expression and attention to language that eclipses any other medium.
A Reader's Guide to Wallace Stevens
They are often shot through with lavish imagery and wit, and disarmingly unexpected: a singing jackrabbit, informed by a lawyer's logic, the seductive Nanzia Nunzio. Though his work is popular and his readership continues to grow, many readers encountering it are baffled by such rich and strange poetry.
Wallace stevens is one of the major poets of the twentieth century, and also among the most challenging. Eleanor cook, a leading critic of poetry and expert on Stevens, gives us here the essential reader's guide to this important American poet. Her annotations, which include both previously unpublished scholarship and interpretive remarks, will benefit beginners and specialists alike.
Cook goes through each of Stevens's poems in his six major collections as well as his later lyrics, in chronological order. Cook also provides a brief biography of Stevens, and offers a detailed appendix on how to read modern poetry. They also spoke--and still speak--to contemporary concerns. His poems can be dazzling in their verbal brilliance.
New Collected Poems
William carlos williams, remarking on the impeccable precision of Moore’s poems, praised “the aesthetic pleasure engendered when pure craftsmanship joins hard surfaces skillfully. It is only in new collected poems that we can understand her later achievements, innovation, see how she refashioned her earlier work, and get a more complete understanding of her consummate craftsmanship, and attention to detail.
Presented and collected by heather cass white, the foremost scholar of Moore’s work, this new collection at last allows readers to experience the untamed force of these dazzling poems as the author first envisioned them. A landmark definitive edition of one of our most innovative and beloved poetsThe landmark oeuvre of Marianne Moore, one of the major inventors of poetic modernism, has had no straight path from beginning to end; until now, there has been no good vantage point from which to see the body of her remarkable work as a whole.
This makes sorting out the complex textual history that she left behind a pressing task if we mean to represent her work as a poet in a way that gives us a complete picture.
The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht
Hugely prolific, brecht also wrote more than two thousand poems—though fewer than half were published in his lifetime, and early translations were heavily censored. A monumental achievement and a reclamation, The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht is a must-have for any lover of twentieth-century poetry.
Written between 1913 and 1956, these poems celebrate brecht’s unquenchable “love of life, the desire for better and more of it, ” and reflect the technical virtuosity of an artist driven by bitter and violent politics, as well as by the untrammeled forces of love and erotic desire. Now, award-winning translators david constantine and Tom Kuhn have heroically translated more than 1, 200 poems in the most comprehensive English collection of Brecht’s poetry to date.
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The themes central to her poetry are geography and landscape—from New England, questions of knowledge and perception, to Brazil and Florida, where she later lived—human connection with the natural world, where she grew up, and the ability or inability of form to control chaos.