ISBN10: 1883011450, ISBN13: 9781883011451, [publisher: Library Of America Okt 1997] Hardcover Neuware - 'Undoubtedly, the single finest collection of Wallace Stevens ever produced.' - Library JournalWallace Stevens's unique voice combined meditative speculation and what he called 'the essential gaudiness of poetry' in a body of work of astonishing profusion and exuberance, poems that have remained an inspiration and influence for generations of poets and readers. Now, for the first time, the works of America's supreme poet of the imagination are collected in one authoritative Library of America volume.Here are all of Stevens's published books of poetry, side-by-side for the first time with the haunting lyrics of his later years and early work that traces the development of his art. From the rococo inventiveness of Harmonium, his first volume (including such classics as 'Sunday Morning' and 'Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird'), through 'Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction,' 'Esthétique du Mal,' 'The Auroras of Autumn,' and the other large-scale masterpieces of his middle years, to the austere final poems of 'The Rock,' Stevens's poetry explores with unrelenting intensity the relation between the world and the human imagination, between nature as found and nature as invented, and the ways poetry mediates between them. The volume presents over ninety poems uncollected ...