The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens (44 page)

Of Heaven Considered as a Tomb

Of Modern Poetry

Of the Surface of Things

Old Lutheran Bells at Home, The

Old Man Asleep, An

On an Old Horn

On the Adequacy of Landscape

On the Manner of Addressing Clouds

On the Road Home

One of the Inhabitants of the West

Ordinary Evening in New Haven, An

Ordinary Women, The

Our Stars Come from Ireland

Owl in the Sarcophagus, The

Page from a Tale

Paisant Chronicle

Palace of the Babies

Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage, The

Parochial Theme

Pastor Caballero, The

Pastoral Nun, A

Pediment of Appearance, The

Peter Quince at the Clavier

Phosphor Reading by His Own Light

Pieces

Place of the Solitaires, The

Plain Sense of Things, The

Planet on the Table, The

Pleasures of Merely Circulating, The

Plot against the Giant, The

Ploughing on Sunday

Plus Belles Pages, Les

Poem that Took the Place of a Mountain, The

Poem with Rhythms

Poem Written at Morning

Poems of Our Climate, The

Poesie Abrutie

Poetry Is a Destructive Force

Postcard from the Volcano, A

Prejudice against the Past, The

Prelude to Objects

Primitive Like an Orb, A

Prologues to What Is Possible

Public Square, The

Puella Parvula

Pure Good of Theory, The

Questions Are Remarks

Quiet Normal Life, A

Rabbit as King of the Ghosts, A

Reader, The

Red Fern, The

Repetitions of a Young Captain

Reply to Papini

Re-statement of Romance

Revolutionists Stop for Orangeade, The

River of Rivers in Connecticut, The

Rock, The

Sad Strains of a Gay Waltz

Sailing after Lunch

St. Armorer’s Church from the Outside

Saint John and the Back-Ache

Sea Surface Full of Clouds

Search for Sound Free from Motion, The

Sense of the Sleight-of-hand Man, The

Six Significant Landscapes

Sketch of the Ultimate Politician

Snow and Stars

Snow Man, The

So-And-So Reclining on Her Couch

Some Friends from Pascagoula

Somnambulisma

Sonatina to Hans Christian

Song of Fixed Accord

Stars at Tallapoosa

Study of Images I

Study of Images II

Study of Two Pears

Sun This March, The

Sunday Morning

Surprises of the Superhuman, The

Tattoo

Tea

Tea at the Palaz of Hoon

Theory

Things of August

Thinking of a Relation between the Images of Metaphors

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

This Solitude of Cataracts

Thought Revolved, A

Thunder by the Musician

To an Old Philosopher in Rome

To the One of Fictive Music

To the Roaring Wind

Tom McGreevy, in America, Thinks of Himself as a Boy

Two at Norfolk

Two Figures in Dense Violet Night

Two Illustrations That the World Is What You Make of It

Two Tales of Liadoff

Two Versions of the Same Poem

Ultimate Poem Is Abstract, The

United Dames of America

Vacancy in the Park

Valley Candle

Variations on a Summer Day

Virgin Carrying a Lantern, The

Waving Adieu, Adieu, Adieu

Weak Mind in the Mountains, A

Weeping Burgher, The

Well Dressed Man with a Beard, The

Westwardness of Everything, The

What We See Is What We Think

Wild Ducks, People and Distances

Wind Shifts, The

Winter Bells

Woman in Sunshine, The

Woman Looking at a Vase of Flowers

Woman Sings a Song for a Soldier Come Home, A

Word with José Rodríguez-Feo, A

World as Meditation, The

World without Peculiarity

Worms at Heaven’s Gate, The

Yellow Afternoon

W
ALLACE
S
TEVENS
was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, on October 2, 1879, and died in Hartford, Connecticut, on August 2, 1955. Although he had contributed to the
Harvard Advocate
while in college, he began to gain general recognition only when Harriet Monroe included four of his poems in a special 1914 wartime issue of
Poetry. Harmonium
, his first volume of poems, was published in 1923, and was followed by
Ideas of Order
(1936),
The Man with the Blue Guitar
(1937),
Parts of a World
(1942),
Transport to Summer
(1947),
The Auroras of Autumn
(1950),
The Necessary Angel
(a volume of essays, 1951),
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
(1954), and
Opus Posthumous
(first published in 1957, edited by Samuel Freud Morse; a new, revised, and corrected edition by Milton J. Bates, 1989). Mr. Stevens was awarded the Bollingen Prize in Poetry of the Yale University Library for 1949. In 1951 he won the National Book Award in Poetry for
The Auroras of Autumn;
in 1955 he won it a second time for
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
, which was also awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1955. From 1916 on, he was associated with the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company, of which he became vice-president in 1934.

Harmonium
(1923, 1931, 1937)

The Man With the Blue Guitar
INCLUDING
Ideas of Order

(1936, 1937;
IN ONE VOLUME
, 1952)

Parts of a World
(1942, 1951)

Transport to Summer
(1947)

The Auroras of Autumn
(1950)

The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
(1954)

(INCLUDES ALL TITLES LISTED ABOVE)

Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose (1957; 1989)

(
REVISED, ENLARGED, AND CORRECTED EDITION EDITED BY MILTON J. BATES
)

The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play
(1971)

(
EDITED BY HOLLY STEVENS
)

The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination
(1951)

Letters of Wallace Stevens
(1966)

(
SELECTED AND EDITED BY HOLLY STEVENS
)

Souvenirs and Prophecies: The Young Wallace Stevens
(1977)

(
BY HOLLY STEVENS
)