The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens brings together the verse of one of the major American modernist poets. Stevens, who spent most of his life as an insurance executive in Hartford, Connecticut, published his first book, Harmonium, relatively late and went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for this collected volume in 1955. His poetry is known for its rich, sometimes ornate language, its musical phrasing, and its sustained meditation on the relationship between imagination and reality. Across poems such as The Emperor of Ice-Cream, Sunday Morning, The Idea of Order at Key West, and Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, Stevens explores how the mind shapes the world, the role of art in a world without traditional faith, and the search for meaning. The collection presents his work as a unified body of philosophical lyric poetry.
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A gathering of the poetry of Wallace Stevens, the American modernist who explored imagination, reality, and belief.
Yes. The Collected Poems won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1955.
They include The Emperor of Ice-Cream, Sunday Morning, The Idea of Order at Key West, and Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens was written by Wallace Stevens, published in 1955 by Knopf.
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens is 583 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens takes most readers 9 to 13 hours to finish.
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.