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...

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...

La edición definitiva de la obra de Wallace Stevens, uno de los mejores poetas del siglo XX cuya sensibilidad aún resuena en nuestros días.«El mejor y más representativo poeta de nuestros tiempos.»Harold BloomWallace Stevens no es solo uno de los grandes poetas del siglo XX, sino el que más influencia ha ejercido en la literatura norteamericana de las últimas décadas, desde John Ashbery hasta Mark Strand o Anne Carson. Su obra, compleja, irreductibl...

Harmonium is the first and most famous poetry collection by Wallace Stevens, one of the leading figures of twentieth-century American poetry. First published in 1923 and later expanded, the collection introduced readers to Stevens’s unique poetic voice, characterized by rich imagery, philosophical reflection, and imaginative language. The poems in Harmonium explore the relationship between reality and imagination, a theme that would become central to Stevens’s work. Through vivid metaphors...

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 ...

Wallace Stevens, hombre de la generación de Ortega y Azaña, o Musil y Apollinaire, y uno de los más destacados poetas del siglo, apenas publicó más ensayos teóricos que los aquí recogidos, escritos entre 1942 y 1951. No se trata de piezas menores y de circunstancias, sino de "páginas que tienen que ver con uno de los modos de ensanchar la vida". Para este poeta singularmente reflexivo, "la realidad moderna es una realidad de descreación", de paso "de lo creado a lo no crea...

La traducción de los aforismos completos de Wallace Stevens, uno de los mejores poetas norteamericanos del siglo XX.Insertado en la estirpe poética que nace en Mallarmé y Valéry, Wallace Stevens es, sin duda, uno de los grandes poetas norteamericanos del siglo XX.Ahora tenemos el privilegio de publicar una excelente versión de sus aforismos completos, que nunca antes se habían traducido íntegramente al castellano. A través de estas páginas, en rigurosa edic...

Com tradução e seleção do poeta Paulo Henriques Britto, o volume bilíngue reúne uma farta amostra da lavra poética de Stevens, que aliou profunda erudição a vívidas imagens."Dualidade" é uma palavra que resume com precisão vida e obra de Wallace Stevens. Um dos nomes mais aclamados da poesia do século XX, sua atuação profissional, distante das rodas literárias, se deu na área executiva. Nascido em uma família rica e tradicional da Pensilvânia, trabalhou como jornali...

Questo volume raccoglie tutte le poesie che Wallace Stevens, uno dei massimi poeti americani del Novecento, scrisse negli ultimi sei anni di vita, e rappresenta forse il punto più alto della sua vicenda intellettuale e stilistica. Sono versi capaci di toccare punti nevralgici della nostra esistenza, in cui Stevens concilia densità e trasparenza, coglie il significato delle cose dietro e attraverso la loro vivida varietà e concretezza. Come scrive Massimo Bacigalupo nella sua Introduzione, ...

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."

Harold Bloom afirmó que algunos de los mejores poemas del siglo se encuentran en este libro.La roca es el último poemario de Wallace Stevens, la obra donde se condensa toda la sabiduría del gran poeta norteamericano, quizá el mejor de su tiempo. Cada una de estas composiciones está escrita en las fronteras del silencio y bajo la sombra de la muerte. Son poemas austeros, sobrecogedores, imbuidos de una serenidad y un conocimiento casi póstumos. Y gracias a ...