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Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list -
starting in Spring 2001 and continuing, with publication dates each
month, for the rest of the year. This will involve a new jacket
design recalling the typographic virtues of the classic Faber
poetry covers, connecting the backlist and the new titles within a
single embracing cover solution. A major reissue program is
scheduled, to include classic individual collections from each
decade, some of which have long been unavailable: Wallace Stevens's
Harmonium and Ezra Pound's Personae from the 1920s; W.H. Auden's
Poems (1930); Robert Lowell's Life Studies from the 1950s; John
Berryman's 77 Dream Songs and Philip Larkin's The Whitsun Weddings
from the 1960s; Ted Hughes's Gaudete and Seamus Heaney's Field Work
from the 1970s; Michael Hofmann's Acrimony and Douglas Dunn's
Elegies from the 1980s. Timed to celebrate publication of Seamus
Heaney's new collection, Electric Light, the relaunch is intended
to re-emphasize the predominance of Faber Poetry, and to celebrate
a series which has played a shaping role in the history of modern
poetry since its inception in the 1920s.
Wallace Stevens is for many readers the supreme poet of twentieth
century America, his unique voice combining meditative speculation
with what he called 'the essential gaudiness of poetry', in an
oeuvre of astonishing profusion and exuberance. The Selected Poems
was compiled by the poet at the request of Faber & Faber, in
1953, shortly before his death, and was intended to be
representative of the range of his acheievement, from the whimsical
and exotic lyrical inventions of Harmonium to the pondered
large-scale and crafted masterpieces of his middle years.
Presents Stevens' notebooks containing excerpts from his reading,
his comments and aphorisms.
This collection of the work of one of the greatest modern poets,
the master of lyrical meditation, was first published in 1955, when
Stevens was seventy-five. He selected the poems himself from
volumes covering more than four decades: "Harmonium", "Ideas of
Order", "The Man With the Blue Guitar", "Parts of a World",
"Transport to Summer" and "The Auroras of Autumn".
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields
in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as
an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification:
++++ Verses From The Harvard Advocate: Third Series, 1886-1906
William Gibbs Peckham, Wallace Stevens The Harvard advocate, 1906
Education; Higher; College verse; College verse, American;
Education / Higher; Poetry / Anthologies
Here are all of Stevens' 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", "Peter Quince at the Clavier", and
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"), through "Notes Toward a
Supreme Fiction", "Esthetique 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' 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. This volume presents over a
hundred 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
available of Stevens' 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 Eliot, Moore, 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' thoughts on poetry and the creative process.
When Opus Posthumous first appeared in 1957, it was an appropriate capstone to the career of one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. It included many poems missing from Stevens's Collected Poems, along with Stevens's characteristically inventive prose and pieces for the theater. 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. A third of the poems and essays in this edition are new to the volume. The resulting book is an invaluable literary document whose language and insights are fresh, startling, and eloquent.
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Harmonium (Paperback)
Wallace Stevens
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The first new selection of this acclaimed poet's work in nearly
twenty years--now in paperback--is a rich reminder to poetry
readers of his lasting contribution and his unending ability to
puzzle, fascinate, and delight us.
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