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The Collected Public Domain Poems of Wallace Stevens, Volume 1

The Collected Public Domain Poems of Wallace Stevens, Volume 1

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Number of Chapters: 54

Length: 1 hour and 07 minutes

Language: English

A collection of Wallace Stevens poems written before 1923.

Stevens trained to be a lawyer. Within eleven years after this series of poems were written, he was 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 he 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,” “The Snow Man,” “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,” and many others. Stevens died of cancer in 1955, shortly after receiving that year’s Pulitzer Prize for poetry.

These poems originally appeared in a variety of magazines (Others, Secession, Rogue, The Soil, The Modern School, Broom, Contact, The New Republic, The Measure, The Little Review, The Dial, and particularly in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse.) Nearly 70 of the 101 published poems were later collected in Stevens' first published collection of poems, HARMONIUM. (Summary by Alan Davis Drake)

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Anecdote of Canna (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
Anecdote of Men by the Thousand (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
Anecdote of the Jar (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
Another Weeping Woman (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
Apostrophe to Vincentine, The (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
Autumn (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
Banal Sojourn (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
Bantams in Pine-Woods (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
Bird with the Coppery, Keen Claws, The (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
Bowl (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
Carnet de Voyage (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
Cortège for Rosenbloom (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
Cuban Doctor, The (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
Curtains in the House of the Metaphysician, The (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
Depression Before Spring (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
Domination of Black (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
Earthly Anecdote (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
Emperor of Icecream, The (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
Explanation (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
Exposition of the Contents of a Cab (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
Florist Wears Knee-Breeches, The (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
Frogs Eat Butterflies, Snakes Eat Frogs, Hogs Eat Snakes, Men Eat Hogs (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
From a Junk (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
From the Misery of Don Joost (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
Gray Room (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
Gubbinal (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
Hibiscus on the Sleeping Shores (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
Home Again (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
Hymn from a Watermellon Pavilion (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
In Battle (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
Indigo Glass in the Grass, The (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
Infanta Marina (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
Invective Against Swans (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
Life Is Motion (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
The Load of Sugar Cane (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
Lulu Gay (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
Meditation (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
O, Florida, Venereal Soil (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
Outside the Hospital (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
Peter Quince at the Clavier (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
Phases (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
The Place of the Solitaires (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
Plowing on Sunday (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
The Snow Man (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
Song 'There are great things doing' (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
Tattoo (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
Tea (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
Theory (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
To the Roaring Wind (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
Valley Candle (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
The Wind Shifts (Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010))
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