{"product_id":"the-collected-poems-of-wallace-stevens-isbn-9781101911686","title":"The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn essential book for all readers of poetry, and the definitive collection from the man Harold Bloom has called “the best and most representative American poet.\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1954 to honor Stevens’s seventy-fifth birthday, the book was rushed into print for the occasion and contained scores of errors. These have now been corrected in one place for the first time by Stevens scholars John N. Serio and Christopher Beyers, based on original editions and manuscripts. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Collected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e is the one volume that Stevens intended to contain all the poems he wished to preserve, presented in the way he wanted. It is an enduring monument to his dazzling achievement.\u003c\/p\u003e“After the reader has admired certain lines because Shakespeare might have written them, he begins to admire them because only Stevens could.” —Robert Fitzgerald \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“One might as well argue with the Evening Star as find fault with so much wit and grace and intelligence . . . such an overwhelming and exquisite command both of the words and of the rhythms of our language; such charm and irony, such natural and philosophical breadth of sympathy, such dignity and magnanimity.” —Randall Jarrell\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWallace Stevens\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1879 and died in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1955. \u003ci\u003eHarmonium\u003c\/i\u003e, his first volume of poems, was published in 1923, and was followed by \u003ci\u003eIdeas of Order\u003c\/i\u003e (1936), \u003ci\u003eThe Man with the Blue Guitar\u003c\/i\u003e (1937), \u003ci\u003eParts of a World\u003c\/i\u003e (1942), \u003ci\u003eTransport to Summer\u003c\/i\u003e (1947), \u003ci\u003eThe Auroras of Autumn\u003c\/i\u003e (1950), \u003ci\u003eThe Necessary Angel\u003c\/i\u003e (a volume of essays, 1951), \u003ci\u003eThe Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens\u003c\/i\u003e (1954), and \u003ci\u003eOpus Posthumous\u003c\/i\u003e (1957; revised and corrected in 1989). Stevens was awarded the Bollingen Prize in Poetry of the Yale University Library for 1949. He twice won the National Book Award in Poetry and was 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Snow Man\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne must have a mind of winter\u003cbr\u003eTo regard the frost and the boughs\u003cbr\u003eOf the pine-trees crusted with snow;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd have been cold a long time\u003cbr\u003eTo behold the junipers shagged with ice,\u003cbr\u003eThe spruces rough in the distant glitter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf the January sun; and not to think\u003cbr\u003eOf any misery in the sound of the wind,\u003cbr\u003eIn the sound of a few leaves,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhich is the sound of the land\u003cbr\u003eFull of the same wind\u003cbr\u003eThat is blowing in the same bare place\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor the listener, who listens in the snow,\u003cbr\u003eAnd, nothing himself, beholds\u003cbr\u003eNothing that is not there and the nothing that is.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303654346981,"sku":"NP9781101911686","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781101911686.jpg?v=1767738733","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-collected-poems-of-wallace-stevens-isbn-9781101911686","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}