PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • An 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."Originally 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 ori...

Wallace Stevens was one Americas greatest modernist poets. Stevens won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1955. This collection of poems contains seven books of poetry as well as some of Stevens most well known works including “Sunday Morning” and “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”. Wallace Stevens wrote most of his poetry later in life, all while remaining a full time Insurance Executive. Expertly formatted with a linked table of contents. Look for more classic books from Green Light. V...

The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.But finding a starting point can be overwhelming, even off-putting, so in this series we offer up our Top 10 classic poet...

A beautiful new edition—the first in nearly twenty years—of the work of Wallace Stevens, a founding father of contemporary American poetry, with a dazzling range of work that is at once emotional and intellectual. As John N. Serio reminds us in his elegant introduction, Stevens has written more persuasively than any other poet about the significance of poetry itself in everyday life: “The imagination—frequently synonymous with the act of the mind, or poetry, for Stevens—is what gives life ...

Art comes in many shapes and sizes and many different forms. And one person’s art is often someone else’s object of derision.But what we can all agree on is that Art exists, that it’s something perhaps unique to humankind but very definitely evokes a deep reaction whether of ‘wow!’ or ‘what?’In this volume we take Art as our subject and have it reviewed and explored by other Artists, by Classic Poets.True Art ignites an individual response or a collective awareness....

The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.But finding a starting point can be overwhelming, even off-putting, so in this series we offer up our Top 10 classic poet...

Wallace Stevens's Harmonium is a landmark of modernist poetry, alive with vivid images, musical language, and a restless imagination. From bucks, swans, lilacs, snow, and sea to girls, peacocks, moonlight, and tropical storms, these poems turn ordinary scenes into strange, luminous visions that are playful, sensual, and deeply philosophical. Across the collection, Stevens explores perception, desire, loneliness, faith, aging, and mortality, showing how meaning emerges through rhythm, symbo...

The Necessary Angel; Essays on Reality and the Imagination is by poet Wallace Stevens. This collection of essays gives us an insight into the wonderful mind of Wallace Stevens as he focuses on words, poetry, and art. Stevens won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1955Expertly formatted with a linked table of contents. Look for more classic books from Green Light. Visit us at - GreenLighteBooks.tumblr.comTwitter - @GreenLightbooks and facebook.com/greenlightbooks

A collection of Valéry’s dialogues, which are among his most important works of the imagination in proseDialogues came naturally to Paul Valéry, providing the common ground between imagination and philosophy that he was always seeking. He called the dialogue “the most supple of the forms of expression,” saying that “I found I was talking to myself in two voices, and began to write accordingly.” This volume brings together all his formal imaginary dialogues, includi...

This selection of works by Wallace Stevens--the man Harold Bloom has called “the best and most representative American poet”--was first published in 1967. Edited by the poet's daughter Holly Stevens, it contains all the major long poems and sequences, and every shorter poem of lasting value in Stevens' career, including some not printed in his earlier Collected Works. Included also is a short play by Stevens, "Bowl, Cat and Broomstick."

The Classic Collection of Wallace Stevens is an extensive anthology that gathers some of the most important poetic works of Wallace Stevens, one of the central figures of twentieth-century American poetry. This illustrated collection includes major volumes such as Harmonium, Ideas of Order, Parts of a World, Transport to Summer, and The Auroras of Autumn, along with many other poems that shaped Stevens’s remarkable literary legacy. Stevens’s poetry is known for its philosophical depth, viv...

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...