The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

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1990

Copyright © 1923, 1931, 1935, 1937, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1954 by Wallace Stevens

Copyright renewed 1982 by Holly Stevens

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., in 1954.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955.
The collected poems of Wallace Stevens.
Originally published: New York Knopf, 1954.
I. Title.
PS3537.T4753 1982 811′.52    82-4735
eISBN: 978-0-307-79187-0     AACR2

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PHOTOGRAPH BY SYLVIA SALMI

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

I.     
The Mechanical Optimist

II.    
Mystic Garden & Middling Beast

III.   
Romanesque Affabulation

IV.   
The Leader

All the Preludes to Felicity

Description of a Platonic Person

Fire-Monsters in the Milky Brain

Dry Birds are Fluttering in Blue Leaves

It Must Be Abstract

It Must Change

It Must Give Pleasure