Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose by Wallace Stevens
by Wallace Stevens
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About This Item
Fine First edition in chocolate brown cloth stamped in silver and gold at spine and on front cover, in a very good green and grey dustwrapper, Edited with an Introduction by Samuel French Morse. 301pp with index. From Collection of Barbara Church.
Synopsis
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 sepcial 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 Frued 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.
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- Bookseller
- Varennes Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86
- Title
- Opus Posthumous
- Author
- Wallace Stevens
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, Fine
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1957
- Keywords
- American Poetry,
- Bookseller catalogs
- VARENNES BOOKS; AMERICAN LITERATURE;
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About Varennes Books
Established in 2016,Varennes Books specializes primarily in limited online sales of turn of the century and Inter-War period signed First Editions in the following areas of concentration: French, German and American Literature, including Poetry, Drama and, Fiction, European Literary Journals and a few unique antiquarian books.
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