Bøger af Wallace Stevens

Illustrations by Martine MacDonaldPoem by Wallace StevensSince its publication in Others: A Magazine of the New Verse in 1917, and later in the 1923 publication of Harmonium, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" by Wallace Stevens has captivated readers with its sparse and elegant style. Among those enchanted with the poem is artist Martine MacDonald, who designed original illustrations as black "paper cuts" mounted on white paper, the images reduced to simplified elements of shape and space. The result is a delightful visual echo to Stevens's modernistic writing.

2019 Reprint of 1923 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. His first book at the age of forty-four, Harmonium was published in 1923 by Knopf in an edition of 1500 copies. This collection comprises 85 poems, ranging in length from just a few lines ("Life Is Motion") to several hundred ("The Comedian as the Letter C"). Harmonium was reissued in 1931 with three poems omitted and fourteen new poems added. Wallace Stevens is one of America's most respected poets. He was a master stylist, employing an extraordinary vocabulary and a rigorous precision in crafting his poems. But he was also a philosopher of aesthetics, vigorously exploring the notion of poetry as the supreme fusion of the creative imagination and objective reality. Because of the extreme technical and thematic complexity of his work, Stevens was sometimes considered a willfully difficult poet. But he was also acknowledged as an eminent abstractionist and a provocative thinker, and that reputation has continued since his death.

Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) gilt zu Recht als einer der großen Dichter des englischsprachigen Modernismus und muss mit seinen Zeitgenossen Thomas Stearns Eliot, Ezra Pound und Marianne Moore zusammen genannt werden. Die Wirkung der Lyrik und der Gedanklichkeit von Wallace Stevens war und ist immens. Zeitgenossen und später Kommende wurden und werden an ihm gemessen. Unter den Lyrikern sind Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery und auch Thomas Lux, neben vielen anderen, zu nennen. Führende amerikanische Literaturkritiker (Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman) entlehnten Teile ihrer Begrifflichkeit dem Werk von Wallace Stevens. In der zweiten Hälfte des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts war die Kenntnis des Stevens'schen "Wörterbuches" geradezu Voraussetzung für das Verständnis postmoderner Literaturtheorien. Wenn der heutige Leser von all dem absieht, und es ist möglich, und sich mit ein paar Gedichten Wallace Stevens' hinsetzt, um langsam, genussvoll und genau zu lesen - in winterlicher oder sommerlicher Geistesverfassung --, so wird er Befriedigung in der Beobachtung seines eigenen Geistes finden, der -- wie Stevens' -- auf der Suche nach dem im Gedicht ist, was genügen könnte: vorbildliche, ästhetisch und klanglich hinreißende, perfekte Lyrik. (Aus der Einleitung)

A Stanford University Press classic.

"Undoubtedly, the single finest collection of Wallace Stevens ever produced." - Library JournalWallace Stevens's unique voice combined meditative speculation and what he called "the essential gaudiness of poetry" in a body of work of astonishing profusion and exuberance, poems that have remained an inspiration and influence for generations of poets and readers. Now, for the first time, the works of America's supreme poet of the imagination are collected in one authoritative Library of America volume.Here are all of Stevens's 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" and "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"), through "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction," "Esthétique 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's 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. The volume presents over ninety 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 of Stevens's 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 T. S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, William Carlos 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's thoughts on poetry and the creative process.The volume also contains explanatory notes, a detailed chronology of Stevens' life, and an essay on textual selection.LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

The poet's 1923 debut features some of his most famous works, including "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," "The Emperor of Ice-Cream," and "Peter Quince at the Clavier."

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.

Wallace Stevens is for many readers the supreme poet of twentieth century America, his voice combining meditative speculation with what he called 'the essential gaudiness of poetry'. This book represents the range of his acheievement, from the lyrical inventions of Harmonium to the pondered large-scale and crafted masterpieces of his middle years.

A collection of the work of one of the greatest modern poets, the master of lyrical meditation, first published in 1955, when Stevens was seventy-five. He selected the poems himself from volumes covering more than four decades.

Wallace's best poems, contained within this collection, have been described as the work of "someone sympathetic, magnanimous, brightly and deeply intelligent."