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FeaturesFebruary 1998 Wallace Stevens's real world by Donald Lyons On Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry & Prose published by the Library of America, edited by Frank Kermode & Joan Richardson Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry and Prose has been edited by Frank Kermode, the author of, among other writings on Stevens, a fine little book published here in Grove’s Evergreen Pilot series as Wallace Stevens (1961), and by Joan Richardson, the poet’s biographer.[1] The volume contains the six published poetry collections—Harmonium (1923), Ideas of Order (1936), The Man with the Blue Guitar (1937), Parts of a World (1942), Transport to Summer (1947), and The Auroras of Autumn (1950)—plus four groupings of poetry: fourteen poems added by Stevens to the 1931 edition of Harmonium; twenty-five poems Stevens collected in “The Rock,” the final section of The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens (1954); twenty-nine poems written subsequent to The Collected Poems ... This article is available to subscribers and for individual purchaseSubscribe to TNC (Print and Online editions) Subscribe to TNC (Online only) This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 16 February 1998, on page 23 Copyright © 2012 The New Criterion | www.newcriterion.com http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/wallacestevens-lyons-3105
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