Opus Posthumous
Poems, Plays, Prose
Published on 4. May 2011
352 pages
978-0-307-79186-3 (ISBN)
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When Opus Posthumous first appeared in 1957, it was an appropriate capstone to the career of one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. It included many poems missing from Stevens's Collected Poems, along with Stevens's characteristically inventive prose and pieces for the theater. Now Milton J. Bates, the author of the acclaimed Wallace Stevens: A Mythology of Self, has edited and revised Opus Posthumous to correct the previous edition's errors and to incorporate material that has come to light since original publication. A third of the poems and essays in this edition are new to the volume. The resulting book is an invaluable literary document whose language and insights are fresh, startling, and eloquent.
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Wallace Stevens was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1879 and died in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1955. Harmonium, his first volume of poems, was published in 1923, and was followed by Ideas of Order (1936), The Man with the Blue Guitar (1937), Parts of a World (1942), Transport to Summer (1947), The Auroras of Autumn (1950), The Necessary Angel (a volume of essays, 1951), The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens (1954), and Opus Posthumous (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.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Preface
- Contents
- Poems
- Chiaroscuro (1908)
- Colors (1909)
- Testamentum (1909?)
- Dolls (1913-1914?)
- Infernale (1913-1914?)
- Carnet de Voyage (1914)
- From a Junk (1914)
- Home Again (1914)
- Phases (1914)
- "All things imagined are of earth compact ." (1913-1915?)
- L'Essor Saccadé (1913-1915?)
- An Exercise for Professor X (1913-1915?)
- Headache (1913-1915?)
- "I have lived so long with the rhetoricians ." (1913-1915?)
- "The night-wind of August ." (1913-1915?)
- To Madame Alda, Singing a Song, in a White Gown (1913-1915?)
- The Silver Plough-Boy (1915)
- Blanche McCarthy (1915-1916?)
- For an Old Woman in a Wig (1915-1916?)
- The Florist Wears Knee-Breeches (1916)
- Song (1916)
- Eight Significant Landscapes (1916)
- Inscription for a Monument (1916)
- Bowl (1916)
- Primordia (1917)
- Meditation (1917)
- Gray Room (1917)
- Lettres d'un Soldat (1918)
- Architecture (1918)
- Stanzas for "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle" (1918)
- An Early Version of "Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks" (1918-1919?)
- Peter Parasol (1919)
- Exposition of the Contents of a Cab (1919)
- Piano Practice at the Academy of the Holy Angels (1919)
- The Indigo Glass in the Grass (1919)
- Anecdote of the Abnormal (1919-1920?)
- Romance for a Demoiselle Lying in the Grass (1919-1920?)
- Lulu Gay (1921)
- Lulu Morose (1921)
- From the Journal of Crispin (1921)
- This Vast Inelegance (1921-1922)
- Saturday Night at the Chiropodist's (1922?)
- Mandolin and Liqueurs (1923)
- The Shape of the Coroner (1923)
- Red Loves Kit (1924)
- Metropolitan Melancholy (1928)
- Annual Gaiety (1930)
- Good Man, Bad Woman (1932)
- The Woman Who Blamed Life on a Spaniard (1932)
- Secret Man (1934)
- What They Call Red Cherry Pie (1934)
- Hieroglyphica (1934)
- The Drum-Majors in the Labor Day Parade (1934)
- Polo Ponies Practicing (1934)
- Lytton Strachey, Also, Enters into Heaven (1935)
- Agenda (1935)
- Table Talk (1935?)
- A Room on a Garden (1935?)
- Owl's Clover (1936)
- The Old Woman and the Statue
- Mr. Burnshaw and the Statue
- The Greenest Continent
- A Duck for Dinner
- Sombre Figuration
- Stanzas for "The Man with the Blue Guitar" (1935-1936)
- The Woman That Had More Babies than That (.1939)
- Life on a Battleship (1939)
- Stanzas for "Examination of the Hero in a Time of War" (1941)
- From "Five Grotesque Pieces" (1942)
- Desire & the Object (1942)
- This as Including That (1944-1945?)
- Recitation after Dinner (1945)
- Memorandum (1947)
- First Warmth (1947)
- As You Leave the Room (1947-1955?)
- The Sick Man (1950)
- As at a Theatre (1950)
- The Desire to Make Love in a Pagoda (1950)
- Nuns Painting Water-Lilies (1950)
- The Role of the Idea in Poetry (1950)
- Americana (1950)
- The Souls of Women at Night (1950)
- A Discovery of Thought (1950)
- The Course of a Particular (1951)
- How Now, O, Brightener . (1952)
- The Dove in Spring (1954)
- Farewell without a Guitar (1954)
- The Sail of Ulysses (1954)
- Presence of an External Master of Knowledge (1954)
- A Child Asleep in Its Own Life (1954)
- Two Letters (1954)
- Conversation with Three Women of New England (1954)
- Dinner Bell in the Woods (1954)
- Reality Is an Activity of the Most August Imagination (1954)
- On the Way to the Bus (1954?)
- Solitaire under the Oaks (1955)
- Local Objects (1955)
- Artificial Populations (1955)
- A Clear Day and No Memories (1955)
- Banjo Boomer (1955)
- July Mountain (1955)
- The Region November (1956)
- "A mythology reflects its region ." (1955?)
- Of Mere Being (1955?)
- Moment of Light (1918)
- Three Paraphrases from Léon-Paul Fargue (1951)
- Plays
- Three Travelers Watch a Sunrise (1916)
- Carlos among the Candles (1917)
- Bowl, Cat and Broomstick (1917)
- A Ceremony (1944?)
- Aphorisms
- From Sur Plusieurs Beaux Sujects (1932-1937)
- Adagia (1934-1940?)
- From "Materia Poetica" (1942)
- From Miscellaneous Notebooks (1948-1955?)
- Essays, Speeches, Notes
- Cattle Kings of Florida (1930)
- On "The Emperor of Ice-Cream" (1933)
- Williams (1934)
- A Note on Martha Champion (1935)
- A Poet That Matters (1935)
- Jacket Statement from Ideas of Order (1936)
- In Memory of Harriet Monroe (1936)
- The Irrational Element in Poetry (1936)
- Jacket Statement from The Man with the Blue Guitar and Other Poems (1937)
- Insurance and Social Change (1937)
- Surety and Fidelity Claims (1938)
- A Note on Poetry (1938)
- Tribute to T. S. Eliot (1938)
- Notes on Jean Labasque (1938-1941?)
- Poetry and War (1942)
- Note on a Personal Choice of Poems (1942)
- A Note on Samuel French Morse (1944)
- Rubbings of Reality (1946)
- The Shaper (1948)
- John Crowe Ransom: Tennessean (1948)
- Poetry and Meaning (1948)
- Marcel Gromaire (1949)
- On Receiving the Gold Medal from the Poetry Society of America (1951)
- On Receiving the National Book Award for Poetry (1951)
- On Receiving an Honorary Degree from Bard College (1951)
- Two or Three Ideas (1951)
- A Collect of Philosophy (1951)
- A Note on "Les Plus Belles Pages" (1952)
- Raoul Dufy (1953)
- The Whole Man: Perspectives, Horizons (1955)
- On Receiving the National Book Award for Poetry (1955)
- A Footnote to Saul Bellow's "Pains and Gains" (1955)
- Two Prefaces (1956)
- Connecticut Composed (1955)
- Questionnaire Responses
- Responses to New Verse Questionnaire (1934)
- Responses to Twentieth Century Verse Questionnaire (1938)
- Responses to Partisan Review Questionnaire (1939)
- Response to Yale Literary Magazine Question (1946)
- Responses to Partisan Review Questionnaire (1948)
- Responses to Modern American Poetry Questionnaire (1950)
- Notes
- Index of Titles
- About the Author
- Other Books by This Author
