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Opus posthumous / by Wallace Stevens

By:

Stevens, Wallace

Contributor(s):

Bates, Milton J

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Vintage Books , 1990.Edition: Rev., enl., and corr. ed. / edited by Milton J. Bates, 1st Vintage Books edDescription: xv, 334 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

0679725342

Uniform titles:

Selections . 1990

Subject(s):

Poetry, American

DDC classification:

811 STE

LOC classification:

PS3537.T4753 A6 1990b

Summary: Originally published in 1957, under the editorship of Samuel French Morse, Opus Posthumous was designed as a companion to Stevens's Collected Poems (1954), offering the reader various fugitive pieces not appearing in book form. This new edition by Stevens scholar Bates contains 48 items that have never been previously published--or that appear here in a radically new form. These new items include poetry, drama, aphorisms, essays, and even responses to questionnaires. Thus, Bates's edition of Opus Posthumous represents a significant addition to the Stevens canon, one that restores the unofficial poet ``who engages today's biographers and historians.'' To read the beautiful pages of this book is to understand why ``poetry is a means of redemption.''

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	811 STE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		001744

Originally published in 1957, under the editorship of Samuel French Morse, Opus Posthumous was designed as a companion to Stevens's Collected Poems (1954), offering the reader various fugitive pieces not appearing in book form. This new edition by Stevens scholar Bates contains 48 items that have never been previously published--or that appear here in a radically new form. These new items include poetry, drama, aphorisms, essays, and even responses to questionnaires. Thus, Bates's edition of Opus Posthumous represents a significant addition to the Stevens canon, one that restores the unofficial poet ``who engages today's biographers and historians.'' To read the beautiful pages of this book is to understand why ``poetry is a means of redemption.''

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