Librivox: Collected Public Domain Poems of Wallace Stevens, Volume 1, The by Stevens, Wallace
Summary: A collection of poems by Wallace Stevens published before 1923. Trained as a lawyer, within eleven years after these poems were written he was a vice-president at the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company in Connecticut. He continued to pursue a quiet life of poetry and correspondence and for the remainder of his life nurtured his contemplative habit of observation and writing as he walked from home to work and back again. Few at Hartford knew of his world acclaim as a poet. While his major work is considered to have been written when he was much older, many of these early poems are firm classics in the American poetic canon, including: Anecdote of the Jar, The Emperor of Ice Cream, Peter Quince at the Clavier, Sunday Morning, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, and others. Stevens died of cancer in 1955, not long after receiving the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. All poems and recordings are in the public domain. This collection was recorded for LibriVox.org. (Summary by Alan Davis-Drake)
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31 "In Battle" by Stevens, Wallace
32 "Indigo Glass in the Grass, The" by Stevens, Wallace
33 "Infanta Marina" by Stevens, Wallace
34 "Inscription for a Monument" by Stevens, Wallace
35 "Invective Against Swans" by Stevens, Wallace
36 "Life Is Motion" by Stevens, Wallace
37 "Load of Sugar Cane, The" by Stevens, Wallace
38 "Lulu Gay" by Stevens, Wallace
39 "Meditation" by Stevens, Wallace
40 "Metaphors of a Magnifico" by Stevens, Wallace
41 "O, Florida, Venereal Soil" by Stevens, Wallace
42 "Outside the Hospital" by Stevens, Wallace
43 "Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage, The" by Stevens, Wallace
44 "Peter Quince at the Clavier" by Stevens, Wallace
45 "Phases" by Stevens, Wallace