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Title	:	Collected Poetry & Prose
Author	:	Wallace Stevens
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 1030 pages
Published	:	October 1st 1997 by Library of America
Categories	:	Poetry. Writing. Essays. Literature. American

Collected Poetry & Prose

Wallace Stevens

Hardcover | Pages: 1030 pages

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Stevens is an incredibly enigmatic poet you'll spend hours trying to figure out. Sometimes you'll crack his works, sometimes you won't, sometimes you will and you won't like what you find, but if you are not obsessed with getting 100% of what's going on in what you read (an unhealthy obsession in any serious reader) then he can be rewarding in a mysterious, even magical way. There's something enchanting in the hours of boundless reverie you can get from a title like "Invective Against Swans."

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Original Title:	Collected Poetry and Prose
ISBN:	1883011450 (ISBN13: 9781883011451)
Edition Language:	English

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Incredible. I don't know how I missed this the first time around, or how the essays in The Necessary Angel didn't strike me much earlier. From "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction," 1.III:The poem refreshes life so that we share,For a moment, the first idea . . . It satisfiesBelief in an immaculate beginningAnd sends us, winged by an unconscious will,To an immaculate end. We move between these points:From that ever-early candor to its late pluralAnd the candor of them is the strong exhilarationOf

Wallace Stevens, what's he done? He can play the flitter-flad; He can see the second sun Spinning through the lordly cloud. He's imagination's prince: He can plink the skitter-bum; How he rolls the vocables, Brings the secret -- right in Here! from "A Rouse for Stevens" by Theodore Roethke W.H. Auden, writing in A Tribute to Igor Stravinsky, quotes him (Stravinsky):I am not a mirror, struck by my mental functions. My interest passes entirely to the object, the thing made.The opposite might be

I've been currently reading this for nearly 50 years.Stevens's poetry is frequently enigmatic. Hence, I keep coming back to poems over and over again, reading new meanings into it.I still have not read it all, and when I have, it will still probably be on my Currently Reading list.

Reviews of this book are difficult: Stevens' is paradigmatic of high modernism and has many of the problems of the time period. You can focus on his idiosyncratic use of language, his problematic views on race, his intellectualism, and his cerebral focus. Stevens' use of imagery is both magical and alienating at once, and ones reaction to that often shapes ones reception of his brand of modernism. This book has so much of his poetry that rougher spots are clear and his idiosyncratic images show

Wallace Stevens is my favorite poet. This Library of America collection is to be preferred as a source of his writing: it includes a number of additional poems relative to his Collected Poems (including the controversial long poem "Owl's Clover"), as well as alternate versions of some poems, juvenilia, and also Stevens's essays.Stevens is known, it seems to me, in two separate ways. In the popular sense, he is known for a series of remarkable early poems, in most cases not terribly long, notable

The reviews of this book (on this site) are rather curious. They range from typically over the top effusions to one delightful review which squanders its contention that Stevens has inexplicably been canonized by taking altogether too long to come to that conclusion. Any book that warrants so much attention cannot be convincingly rated at one star. But, of course, neither the pros nor cons quite get it right. Stevens is not a poet to hug to one's chest while trilling delighted arpeggios of

To be honest, I had never heard about this poet until I took a class on him in my final year of college. In general, I'm not a very big poetry fan but every once in a while I come across someone whose works do get to me. This was also the case for Wallace Stevens and my appreciation of his works even increased after I found out that he wrote poems inspired by William Butler Yeats. It might have been because of the academic environment and the enthusiasm with which my professor spoke of him, but