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Born in October 2, 1879 / Died in August 2, 1955 / United States / English

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  • Harmonium (poetry; includes "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle," "The Comedian as the Letter C," "The Emperor of Ice Cream," "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," "Peter Quince at the Clavier," "Sunday Morning," "Sea Surface Full of Clouds," and "In the Clear Season of Grapes"), Knopf, 1923, revised edition, 1931.
  • Ideas of Order (poetry; includes "Farewell to Florida," "The Idea of Order at Key West," "Academic Discourse at Havana," "Like Decorations in a Nigger Cemetery," and "A Postcard from the Volcano"), Alcestis Press, 1935, enlarged edition, Knopf, 1936.
  • Owl's Clover (poetry; also see below), Alcestis Press, 1936.
  • The Man with the Blue Guitar, and Other Poems (poetry; includes "The Man with the Blue Guitar," "A Thought Revolved," and "The Men That Are Falling"), Knopf, 1937.
  • Parts of a World (poetry; includes "The Poems of Our Climate," "The Well Dressed Man with a Beard," and "Examination of the Hero in a Time of War"), Knopf, 1942.
  • Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (poetry; also see below), Cummington Press, 1942.
  • Esthetique du Mal (poetry; also see below), Cummington Press, 1945.
  • Transport to Summer (poetry; includes "The Pure Good of Theory," "A Word With Jose Rodriguez-Feo," "Description without Place," "The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm," "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction," and "Esthetique du Mal"), Knopf, 1947.
  • Three Academic Pieces: The Realm of Resemblance, Someone Puts a Pineapple Together, Of Ideal Time and Choice (essays; also see below), Cummington Press, 1947.
  • A Primitive Like an Orb (poetry; also see below), Gotham Book Mart, 1948.
  • The Auroras of Autumn (poetry; includes "The Auroras of Autumn," "Large Red Man Reading," "In a Bad Time," "The Ultimate Poem Is Abstract," "Bouquet of Roses in Sunlight," "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven," and "A Primitive Like an Orb"), Knopf, 1950.
  • The Relations between Poetry and Painting (lecture), Museum of Modern Art, 1951.
  • The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination (essays; includes "The Noble Rider and the Sound of Words," "The Figure of the Youth as Virile Poet," "Effects of Analogy," "The Realm of Resemblance," "Someone Puts a Pineapple Together," and "Of Ideal Time and Choice" from Three Academic Pieces), Faber, 1960.
  • Selected Poems, Fortune Press, 1952.
  • Selected Poems, Faber, 1953.
  • Raoul Duly: A Note (nonfiction), Pierre Beres, 1953.
  • The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens (includes "The Rock," previously unpublished section featuring "The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain," "A Quiet Normal Life," "Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour," "The Rock," "The Planet on the Table," and "Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself"), Knopf, 1954, reprinted, Random House, 1982.
  • Opus Posthumous (includes Owl's Clover and essays "The Irrational Element in Poetry," "The Whole Man: Perspectives," "Horizons," "Preface to Time of Year," "John Crowe Ransom: Tennessean," and "Adagia"), edited by Samuel French Morse, Knopf, 1957, reprinted, Random House, 1982.
  • Poems by Wallace Stevens, edited by Morse, Vintage Books, 1959.
  • Letters of Wallace Stevens, edited by daughter, Holly Stevens, Knopf, 1966.
  • The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play by Wallace Stevens, edited by Holly Stevens, Knopf, 1971.
  • Collected Poetry and Prose, Library of America (New York, NY), 1997.
Also author of preface to William Carlos Williams's Collected Poems, 1921-1931, Objectivist Press, 1934. Author of plays Three Travelers Watch a Sunrise, 1916, Carlos among the Candles, 1917, and Bowl, Cat, and Broomstick, c. 1917. Work represented in numerous anthologies, including Modern American Poetry, The New Pocket Anthology of American Verse, and The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry. Contributor to periodicals, including Accent, American Letters, Botteghe Oscure, Broom, Contact, Dial, Halcyon, Horizon, Hound and Horn, Kenyon Review, Life and Letters Today, Little Review, Measure, Modern School, Nation, New Republic, Others, Poetry (some works published under pseudonym Peter Parasol, c. 1914), Poetry London, Quarterly Review of Literature, Rogue, Secession, Soil, Southern Review, Voices, and Wake.