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| Original Title: | Collected Poetry and Prose |
| ISBN: | 1883011450 (ISBN13: 9781883011451) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Wallace Stevens
Hardcover | Pages: 1030 pages Rating: 4.41 | 1664 Users | 43 Reviews
List Appertaining To Books Collected Poetry & Prose
| Title | : | Collected Poetry & Prose |
| Author | : | Wallace Stevens |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 1030 pages |
| Published | : | October 1st 1997 by Library of America |
| Categories | : | Poetry. Writing. Essays. Literature. American |
Commentary Conducive To Books Collected Poetry & Prose
The Library of America is not a cheap publishing house, but their editions are worth every penny you pay for them.Stevens is an incredibly enigmatic poet you'll spend hours trying to figure out. Sometimes you'll crack his works, sometimes you won't, sometimes you will and you won't like what you find, but if you are not obsessed with getting 100% of what's going on in what you read (an unhealthy obsession in any serious reader) then he can be rewarding in a mysterious, even magical way. There's something enchanting in the hours of boundless reverie you can get from a title like "Invective Against Swans."
Rating Appertaining To Books Collected Poetry & Prose
Ratings: 4.41 From 1664 Users | 43 ReviewsArticle Appertaining To Books Collected Poetry & Prose
There's some pretty incredible poetry in here, but you've got to read it for the sound, first, and then worry about the meaning. Alas, when I write a paper on it I have to do the reverse. (Aside: They don't teach us, in English departments, to write about aesthetic effects of texts, so when we get to a point where we have the chance to analyze that, it's a lot harder than a simple close reading.)Check out "Sunday Morning," one of the greatest poems ever, and "Rabbit as King of the Ghosts" forStevens has written some of the most beautiful lines of blank verse poetry I've read. And some of his verse has a mystical concreteness of the best haikus. But I generally feel a coldness in his poetry and his metaphysics. His works seem dispassionate and coolly analytical, the topics are a bit too philosophical for my personal tastes.Idea of Order at Key West is one of the best poems Ive ever read, and I enjoy Sunday Morning, Peter Quince at the Clavier and Thirteen Ways of Looking at a
Of course, this is some of the greatest poetry of the twentieth century. But it's also a wonderful edition. Not all of the Library of America volumes are of equal interest. Some (like the recent Philip K. Dick collection) are wasted opportunities that serve mostly to legitimate their authors. Others (like the Melville volumes) are useful compendiums, but not, in fact, the best editions available. That's not the case here. No other edition collects as many poems or makes as much of the prose
Read it. Read it again. Repeat.
I could spend a lifetime with these poems and never get tired. They are incredibly intricate, beautiful, and contemplative, but in a very ordered way. I love The Library of America hardcover edition, well-made and handy.
To be honest, I had never heard about this poet until I took a class on him in my final year of college. In general, I'm not a very big poetry fan but every once in a while I come across someone whose works do get to me. This was also the case for Wallace Stevens and my appreciation of his works even increased after I found out that he wrote poems inspired by William Butler Yeats. It might have been because of the academic environment and the enthusiasm with which my professor spoke of him, but
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