The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens by Stevens, Wallace -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Harmonium

Earthy Anecdote Invective against Swans In the Carolinas The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage The Plot against the Giant Infanta Marina Domination of Black The Snow Man The Ordinary Women The Load of Sugar-Cane Le Monocle de Mon Oncle Nuances of a Theme by Williams Metaphors of a Magnifico Ploughing on Sunday Cy Est Pourtraicte, Madame Ste Ursule, et Les Unze Mille Vierges Hibiscus on the Sleeping Shores Fabliau of Florida The Doctor of Geneva Another Weeping Woman Homunculus et La Belle Étoile The Comedian as the Letter C

I. The World without Imagination II. Concerning the Thunderstorms of Yucatan III. Approaching Carolina IV. The Idea of a Colony V. A Nice Shady Home VI. And Daughters with Curls

From the Misery of Don Joost O Florida, Venereal Soil Last Looks at the Lilacs The Worms at Heaven’s Gate The Jack-Rabbit Valley Candle Anecdote of Men by the Thousand The Apostrophe to Vincentine Floral Decorations for Bananas Anecdote of Canna On the Manner of Addressing Clouds Of Heaven Considered as a Tomb Of the Surface of Things Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks A High-Toned Old Christian Woman The Place of the Solitaires The Weeping Burgher The Curtains in the House of the Metaphysician Banal Sojourn Depression before Spring The Emperor of Ice-Cream The Cuban Doctor Tea at the Palaz of Hoon Disillusionment of Ten O’clock Sunday Morning The Virgin Carrying a Lantern Stars at Tallapoosa Explanation Six Significant Landscapes Bantams in Pine-Woods Anecdote of the Jar Palace of the Babies Frogs Eat Butterflies. Snakes Eat Frogs. Hogs Eat Snakes. Men Eat Hogs Jasmine’s Beautiful Thoughts underneath the Willow Cortège for Rosenbloom Tattoo The Bird with the Coppery, Keen Claws Life Is Motion The Wind Shifts Colloquy with a Polish Aunt Gubbinal Two Figures in Dense Violet Night Theory To the One of Fictive Music Hymn from a Watermelon Pavilion Peter Quince at the Clavier Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird Nomad Exquisite The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad The Death of a Soldier Negation The Surprises of the Superhuman Sea Surface Full of Clouds The Revolutionists Stop for Orangeade New England Verses Lunar Paraphrase Anatomy of Monotony The Public Square Sonatina to Hans Christian In the Clear Season of Grapes Two at Norfolk Indian River Tea To the Roaring Wind

Ideas of Order

Farewell to Florida Ghosts as Cocoons Sailing after Lunch Sad Strains of a Gay Waltz Dance of the Macabre Mice Meditation Celestial & Terrestrial Lions in Sweden How to Live. What to Do Some Friends from Pascagoula Waving Adieu, Adieu, Adieu The Idea of Order at Key West The American Sublime Mozart, 1935 Snow and Stars The Sun This March Botanist on Alp (No. 1) Botanist on Alp (No. 2) Evening without Angels The Brave Man A Fading of the Sun Gray Stones and Gray Pigeons Winter Bells Academic Discourse at Havana Nudity at the Capital Nudity in the Colonies Re-statement of Romance The Reader Mud Master Anglais Mort à Florence The Pleasures of Merely Circulating Like Decorations in a Nigger Cemetery A Postcard from the Volcano Autumn Refrain A Fish-Scale Sunrise Gallant Château Delightful Evening

The Man with the Blue Guitar

The Man with the Blue Guitar A Thought Revolved

I. The Mechanical Optimist II. Mystic Garden & Middling Beast III. Romanesque Affabulation IV. The Leader

The Men That are Falling

Parts of a World

Parochial Theme Poetry Is a Destructive Force The Poems of Our Climate Prelude to Objects Study of Two Pears The Glass of Water Add This to Rhetoric Dry Loaf Idiom of the Hero The Man on the Dump On the Road Home The Latest Freed Man United Dames of America Country Words The Dwarf A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts Loneliness in Jersey City Anything Is Beautiful if You Say It Is A Weak Mind in the Mountains The Bagatelles the Madrigals Girl in a Nightgown Connoisseur of Chaos The Blue Buildings in the Summer Air Dezembrum Poem Written at Morning Thunder by the Musician The Common Life The Sense of the Sleight-of-hand Man The Candle a Saint A Dish of Peaches in Russia Arcades of Philadelphia the Past Of Hartford in a Purple Light Cuisine Bourgeoise Forces, the Will & the Weather On an Old Horn Bouquet of Belle Scavoir Variations on a Summer Day Yellow Afternoon Martial Cadenza Man and Bottle Of Modern Poetry Arrival at the Waldorf Landscape with Boat On the Adequacy of Landscape Les Plus Belles Pages Poem with Rhythms Woman Looking at a Vase of Flowers The Well Dressed Man with a Beard Of Bright & Blue Birds & the Gala Sun Mrs. Alfred Uruguay Asides on the Oboe Extracts from Addresses to the Academy of Fine Ideas Montrachet-le-Jardin The News and the Weather Metamorphosis Contrary Theses (1) Phosphor Reading by His Own Light The Search for Sound Free from Motion Jumbo Contrary Theses (II) The Hand as a Being Oak Leaves Are Hands Examination of the Hero in a Time of War

Transport to Summer

God Is Good. It Is a Beautiful Night Certain Phenomena of Sound The Motive for Metaphor Gigantomachia Dutch Graves in Bucks County No Possum, No Sop, No Taters So-And-So Reclining on Her Couch Chocorua to Its Neighbor Poesie Abrutie The Lack of Repose Somnambulisma Crude Foyer Repetitions of a Young Captain The Creations of Sound Holiday in Reality Esthétique du Mal The Bed of Old John Zeller Less and Less Human, O Savage Spirit Wild Ducks, People and Distances The Pure Good of Theory

All the Preludes to Felicity Description of a Platonic Person Fire-Monsters in the Milky Brain Dry Birds are Fluttering in Blue Leaves

A Word with José Rodríguez-Feo Paisant Chronicle Sketch of the Ultimate Politician Flyer’s Fall Jouga Debris of Life and Mind Description without Place Two Tales of Liadoff Analysis of a Theme Late Hymn from the Myrrh-Mountain Man Carrying Thing Pieces A Completely New Set of Objects Adult Epigram Two Versions of the Same Poem Men Made Out of Words Thinking of a Relation between the Images of Metaphors Chaos in Motion and Not in Motion The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm Continual Conversation with a Silent Man A Woman Sings a Song for a Soldier Come Home The Pediment of Appearance Burghers of Petty Death Human Arrangement The Good Man Has No Shape The Red Fern From the Packet of Anacharsis The Dove in the Belly Mountains Covered with Cats The Prejudice against the Past Extraordinary References Attempt to Discover Life A Lot of People Bathing in a Stream Credences of Summer A Pastoral Nun The Pastor Caballero Notes toward a Supreme Fiction

It Must Be Abstract It Must Change It Must Give Pleasure

The Auroras of Autumn

The Auroras of Autumn Page from a Tale Large Red Man Reading This Solitude of Cataracts In the Element of Antagonisms In a Bad Time The Beginning The Countryman The Ultimate Poem Is Abstract Bouquet of Roses in Sunlight The Owl in the Sarcophagus Saint John and the Back-Ache Celle Qui Fût Héaulmiette Imago A Primitive like an Orb Metaphor as Degeneration The Woman in Sunshine Reply to Papini The Bouquet World without Peculiarity Our Stars Come from Ireland

I. Tom McGreery, in America, Thinks of Himself as a Boy II. The Westwardness of Everything

Puella Parvula The Novel What We See Is What We Think A Golden Woman in a Silver Mirror The Old Lutheran Bells at Home Questions Are Remarks Study of Images I Study of Images II An Ordinary Evening in New Haven Things of August Angel Surrounded by Paysans

The Rock

An Old Man Asleep The Irish Cliffs of Moher The Plain Sense of Things One of the Inhabitants of the West Lebensweisheitspielerei The Hermitage at the Centre The Green Plant Madame La Fleurie To an Old Philosopher in Rome Vacancy in the Park The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain Two Illustrations That the World Is What You Make It

The Constant Disquisition of the Wind The World Is Larger in Summer

Prologues to What Is Possible Looking across the Fields and Watching the Birds Fly Song of Fixed Accord The World as Meditation Long and Sluggish Lines A Quiet Normal Life Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour The Rock

Seventy Years Later The Poem as Icon Forms of the Rock in a Night-Hymn

St. Armorer’s Church from the Outside Note on Moonlight The Planet on the Table The River of Rivers in Connecticut Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself

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