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Wallace Stevens John Burnside

Wallace Stevens By John Burnside

Wallace Stevens by John Burnside


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Summary

Wallace Stevens was born in Pennsylvania in 1879. Harmonium, published in 1923, became a landmark in modern American poetry with its imagery and meditations on art, reality and imagination. It was followed by Ideas of Order, The Man with the Blue Guitar and Other Poems, Transport to Summer and The Necessary Angel. Stevens died in 1955.

Wallace Stevens Summary

Wallace Stevens by John Burnside

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets of our literature. Wallace Stevens was born in Pennsylvania in 1879. Harmonium, published in 1923, became a landmark in modern American poetry with its startling imagery and meditations on art, reality and imagination. It was followed by Ideas of Order, The Man with the Blue Guitar and Other Poems, Notes toward a Supreme Fiction, Transport to Summer and The Necessary Angel. Stevens died in 1955.

Wallace Stevens Reviews

'Faber has a poetry list worth bragging about. What other publisher could conjure up a series like this?' The Times

About John Burnside

John Burnside is a poet and author and was born in Dunfermline in 1955. The Hoop, his first collection of poetry, was published in 1988 and won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award. This was followed by Common Knowledge (1991), Feast Days (1992), winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, The Asylum Dance (2000), winner of the Whitbread Poetry Award and shortlisted for both the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year) and the T. S. Eliot Prize, and The Light Trap (2001), which was also shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. The Good Neighbour (2005) was shortlisted for the 2005 Forward Poetry Prize (Best Collection) and his Selected Poems was published in 2006. His latest collection, Gift Songs, was published in 2007. He lives in Fife.

Additional information

GOR002827597
9780571237937
0571237932
Wallace Stevens by John Burnside
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Faber & Faber
20080501
112
N/A
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