Our Stars Come from Ireland

Owl in the Sarcophagus, The

Paisant Chronicle

Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage, The

Parochial Theme

Pastoral Nun, A

Peter Quince at the Clavier

Phosphor Reading by His Own Light

Place of the Solitaires, The

Plain Sense of Things, The

Planet on the Table, The

Pleasures of Merely Circulating, The

Plot against the Giant, The

Ploughing on Sunday

Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain, The

Poem with Rhythms

Poem Written at Morning

Poems of Our Climate, The

Poetry Is a Destructive Force

Postcard from the Volcano, A

Prejudice against the Past, The

Primitive Like an Orb, A

Prologues to What Is Possible

[Prose statement on the poetry of war]

Puella Parvula

Pure Good of Theory, The

Questions Are Remarks

Quiet Normal Life, A

Rabbit as King of the Ghosts, A

Reader, The

Reality Is an Activity of the Most August Imagination

Re-statement of Romance

River of Rivers in Connecticut, The

Rock, The

Sad Strains of a Gay Waltz

Sailing after Lunch

Sail of Ulysses, The

Saint John and the Back-Ache

Sea Surface Full of Clouds

Sense of the Sleight-of-Hand Man, The

Silver Plough-Boy, The

Six Significant Landscapes

Snow Man, The

So-and-So Reclining on Her Couch

Some Friends from Pascagoula

Someone Puts a Pineapple Together

Somnambulisma

Stars at Tallapoosa

Study of Two Pears

Sun This March, The

Sunday Morning

Tea

Tea at the Palaz of Hoon

Things of August

Thinking of a Relation between the Images of Metaphors

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

This Solitude of Cataracts

Thought Revolved, A

To an Old Philosopher in Rome

To the One of Fictive Music

To the Roaring Wind

Two Figures in Dense Violet Light

Two Illustrations That the World Is What You Make of It

Two Versions of the Same Poem

Ultimate Poem Is Abstract, The

United Dames of America

Valley Candle

Variations on a Summer Day

Virgin Carrying a Lantern, The

Waving Adieu, Adieu, Adieu

Weak Mind in the Mountains, A

Well Dressed Man with a Beard, The

Woman in Sunshine, The

Woman Sings a Song for a Soldier Come Home, A

World as Meditation, The

World without Peculiarity

Worms at Heaven’s Gate, The

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

WALLACE STEVENS was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, on October 2, 1879, and died in Hartford, Connecticut, on August 2, 1955. Although he had contributed to the Harvard Advocate while in college, he began to gain general recognition only when Harriet Monroe included four of his poems in a special 1914 wartime issue of Poetry. 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 (first published in 1957, edited by Samuel Freud Morse; a new, revised, and corrected edition by Milton J. Bates, 1989). Mr. Stevens was awarded the Bollingen Prize in Poetry of the Yale University Library for 1949. In 1951 he won the National Book Award in Poetry for The Auroras of Autumn; in 1955 he won it a second time for The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, which was also 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.