Audiobooks by Wallace Stevens

Born in the USA - Exploring America in Poems - The Mid-Atlantic Poets

"Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another. Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us. Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to symbolize and to describe everything from everyday life, natural wonders, the human condition and even in its more hubristic moments, the crushing triumph of an enemy. In the volumes of this series we take a look through the prism of individual regions of the United States through the centuries and decades. The United States may be many things: the world's policeman, a bully, a shameless purveyor of mass market culture but it also, in its better moments, a standard bearer for truth, transparency, equality and the more positive qualities of democracy. Little wonder that's its poets are rightly acknowledged as wonders of their art. Leading lights in the fight against slavery and for equality, even if the rest of the Nation is finding it problematic to catch up. In this volume we have collected verse from poets born in the prosaically named Mid-Atlantic region. Within its boundaries, which have never been authoritatively agreed, are New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia. Therefore it is easy to wax lyrical on what, and how, our esteemed poets including Walt Whitman, Frances W Harper, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, William Carlos Williams and Herman Melville have penned in their gloried verse on the societies and lands before and around them."

Edith Wharton, Frances E. W. Harper, Henry James, Herman Melville, Jean Toomer, Joyce Kilmer, Stephen Crane, Wallace Stevens, Walt Whitman, Willa Cather, William Carlos Williams (Author), Lee Jackson, Trei House, William Marsh (Narrator)

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Born in the USA - Exploring America in Poems - The Pennsylvania Poets

"Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another. Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us. Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to symbolize and to describe everything from everyday life, natural wonders, the human condition and even in its more hubristic moments, the crushing triumph of an enemy. In the volumes of this series we take a look through the prism of individual regions of the United States through the centuries and decades. The United States may be many things: the world's policeman, a bully, a shameless purveyor of mass market culture but it also, in its better moments, a standard bearer for truth, transparency, equality and the more positive qualities of democracy. Little wonder that's its poets are rightly acknowledged as wonders of their art. Leading lights in the fight against slavery and for equality, even if the rest of the Nation is finding it problematic to catch up. In this volume we have collected verse from poets born in Pennsylvania, one of the most famous states of the Union. Its proud and illustrious history shines out through verse by such illustrious and venerated names as Stephen Vincent Benet, Louisa May Alcott, Wallace Stevens, Hilda Doolittle, Henry Van Dyke, and others as they explore its status, its nature and its role in shaping the world of verse."

Bayard Taylor, Henry Van Dyke, Hilda Doolittle, Louisa May Alcott, Sarah Louisa Forten, Stephen Vincent Benet, Thomas Dunn, Wallace Stevens (Author), Eric Meyers, Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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Born in the USA - The Pennsylvania Poets

"Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another. Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us.Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to symbolize and to describe everything from everyday life, natural wonders, the human condition and even in its more hubristic moments, the crushing triumph of an enemy.In the volumes of this series we take a look through the prism of individual regions of the United States through the centuries and decades.The United States may be many things: the world's policeman, a bully, a shameless purveyor of mass market culture but it also, in its better moments, a standard bearer for truth, transparency, equality and the more positive qualities of democracy.Little wonder that's its poets are rightly acknowledged as wonders of their art. Leading lights in the fight against slavery and for equality, even if the rest of the Nation is finding it problematic to catch up. In this volume we have collected verse from poets born in Pennsylvania, one of the most famous states of the Union. Its proud and illustrious history shines out through verse by such illustrious and venerated names as Stephen Vincent Benet, Louisa May Alcott, Wallace Stevens, Hilda Doolittle, Henry Van Dyke, and others as they explore its status, its nature and its role in shaping the world of verse."

Bayard Taylor, Florence Earle Coates, Herny Van Dyke, Hilda Doolittle, Louisa May Alcott, Sarah Louisa Forten, Stephen Vincent Benet, Thomas Dunn, Wallace Stevens (Author), Laurel Lefkow (Narrator)

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The Poetry of Art

"Art comes in many shapes and sizes and many different forms. And one person's art is often someone else's object of derision.But what we can all agree on is that Art exists, that it's something perhaps unique to humankind but very definitely evokes a deep reaction whether of 'wow!' or 'what?' In this volume we take Art as our subject and have it reviewed and explored by other Artists, by Classic Poets.True Art ignites an individual response or a collective awareness. Our DNA seems to cultivate that. When we engage with Art the results are at times as surprising as they are interesting.In the words of Keats, Shakespeare, Wharton, Chatterton and very many others Art is seen and understood both as that individual reaction and a collective experience. Art is where it's at.01 - The Poetry of Art - An Introduction02 - The Man With the Blue Guitar by Wallace Stevens03 - Botticlelli's Madonna in the Louvre by Edith Wharton04 - Before a Painting by James Weldon Johnson05 - Sonnet 20 - A Woman's Face with Nature's Own Hand Painted by William Shakespeare06 - Sonnet 24 - Mine Eye Hath Played the Painter and Hath Steeled by William Shakespeare07 - Sonnet 83 - I Never Saw That You Did Painting Need by William Shakespeare08 - Art and Heart by Ella Wheeler Wilcox09 - Colors by Stephen Vincent Benet10 - I Have Colours in My Head by Daniel Sheehan11 - I Would Not Paint a Picture by Emily Dickinson12 - To the Painter, To Draw Him a Picture by Robert Herrick13 - On Mr Alcock of Bristol, an Excellent Miniature Painter by Thomas Chatterton14 - On the Portrait of Two Beautiful Young People by Gerard Manley Hopkins15 - Portrait d'une Femme by Ezra Pound16 - To a Beautiful Female Portrait by Henry Alford17 - The Portrait by Ford Madox Ford18 - Her Portrait Immortal by Richard Le Gallienne19 - My Last Duchess by Robert Browning20 - Portrait of My Father As a Young Man by Rainer Maria Rilke21 - On a Portrait of Dante by Giotto by James Russell Lowell22 - Written Under a Portrait of Keats by John Boyle O'Reily23 - On Seeing the Elgin Marbles For the First Time by John Keats24 - Jade by Edith Wharton25 - Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley26 - An Inscription for Zheng Shujin's Painting by Qiu Jin27 - The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus28 - Rome - Building a New Street in the Ancient Quarter, April 1887 by Thomas Hardy29 - How Many Paltry Foolish Painted Things by Michael Drayton30 - To the Painter of an Ill Drawn Picture of Cleone by Anne Kingsmill-Finch31 - An Art Critic by Ambrose Bierce32 - A Portrait by Richard Brinsley Sheridan"

Thomas Chatterton, Wallace Stevens (Author), Lee Jackson (Narrator)

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The Poetry of Wallace Stevens

"Wallace James Stevens was born on October 2nd, 1879 in Reading, Pennsylvania.His father, a lawyer, sent Wallace to Harvard as a non-degree special student, after which he movedto New York City and worked briefly as a journalist.From there he attended New York Law School and graduated in 1903. On a trip home to Reading in1904 Stevens met Elsie Viola Kachel, a saleswoman, milliner, and stenographer.After working for several New York law firms he was hired in January 1908, as a lawyer for the American Bonding Company.After a 6 year courtship Wallace and Elsie married in 1909 over the objections of his parents. For Wallace it was a seismic event; he never spoke to his father again. By 1914 Wallace had become the vice-president of the New York office of the Equitable SuretyCompany of St. Louis, Missouri. In 1916, he joined Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company and they moved to Hartford. His work was full-time and time for his poetry writing was in short supply.From January 1922 made several business several visits to Key West, Florida. "The place is a paradise," he wrote to Elsie, "midsummer weather, the sky brilliantly clear and intensely blue, the sea blue and green beyond what you have ever seen."In 1923 'Harmonium' was published. At last, at age 38, he was an overnight success. His career wasnot prodigious in quantity but its quality was exceptional.In March 1955 Wallace underwent various medical tests and an operation which resulted in a diagnosis of stomach cancer.He travelled in early June to receive honorary Doctorates at Hartford and Yale.Wallace was readmitted on July 21st to St. Francis Hospital where his condition deteriorated. Wallace Stevens died on the 2nd August 1955 at the age of 75. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his Collected Poems in 1955. - 1 - The Poetry of Wallace Stevens - An Introduction2 - Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Wallace Stevens3 - Six Significant Landscapes by Wallace Stevens4 - Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock by Wallace Stevens5 - Two Figures in Dense Violet Light by Wallace Stevens6 - In The Carolinas by Wallace Stevens7 - Last Looks at the Lilacs by Wallace Stevens8 - Gray Room by Wallace Stevens9 - Tea At the Palaz of Hoon by Wallace Stevens10 - Hymn From A Watermelon Pavilion by Wallace Stevens11 - Domination of Black by Wallace Stevens12 - Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks by Wallace Stevens13 - Anecdote of the Jar by Wallace Stevens14 - Sunday Morning by Wallace Stevens15 - Phases by Wallace Stevens16 - Metaphors of a Magnifico by Wallace Stevens17 - Frogs Eat Butterflies, snakes Eat Frogs, Hogs Eat Snakes, Men Eat Hogs by Wallace Stevens18 - The Worm's At Heaven's Gate by Wallace Stevens19 - Tattoo by Wallace Stevens20 - Another Weeping Woman by Wallace Stevens21 - The High-toned Old Christian Woman by Wallace Stevens22 - To the One of Fictive Music by Wallace Stevens23 - Peter Quince at the Clavier by Wallace Stevens24 - The Emperor of Ice Cream by Wallace Stevens25 - The Wind Shifts by Wallace Stevens26 - The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens27 - Nomad Exquisite by Wallace Stevens28 - The Comedian as the Letter C by Wallace Stevens"

Wallace Stevens (Author), Christopher Ragland, Danny Swopes, Liza Ross (Narrator)

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The Collected Public Domain Poems of Wallace Stevens, Volume 2

"A collection of Wallace Stevens poems written before 1923. These poems originally appeared in a variety of magazines (Others, Rogue, The Soil, The Modern School, Broom, Contact, The New Republic, The Measure, The Little Review, The Dial, and particularly in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse.) Nearly 70 of the 101 published poems were later collected in Stevens' first published collection of poems, Harmonium. (Summary by Alan Davis Drake & Ruth Golding) Proof-listening by Winston Tharp, Hanna1990 and Ruth Golding."

Wallace Stevens (Author), LibriVox Volunteers (Narrator)

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The Collected Public Domain Poems of Wallace Stevens, Volume 1

"A collection of Wallace Stevens poems written before 1923. Stevens trained to be a lawyer. Within eleven years after this series of poems were written, he was vice-president at the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company in Connecticut. He continued to pursue a quiet life of poetry and correspondence and for the remainder of his life he nurtured his contemplative habit of observation and writing as he walked from home to work and back again. Few at Hartford knew of his world acclaim as a poet. While his major work is considered to have been written when he was much older, many of these early poems are firm classics in the American poetic canon, including: "Anecdote of the Jar," "The Emperor of Ice Cream," "Peter Quince at the Clavier," "Sunday Morning," "The Snow Man," "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," and many others. Stevens died of cancer in 1955, shortly after receiving that year's Pulitzer Prize for poetry. These poems originally appeared in a variety of magazines (Others, Secession, Rogue, The Soil, The Modern School, Broom, Contact, The New Republic, The Measure, The Little Review, The Dial, and particularly in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse.) Nearly 70 of the 101 published poems were later collected in Stevens' first published collection of poems, HARMONIUM. (Summary by Alan Davis Drake)"

Wallace Stevens (Author), Alan Davis Drake (Narrator)

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The Complete Poems of Wallace Stevens, Volume 1

"A collection of Wallace Stevens poems written before 1923. Stevens trained to be a lawyer. Within eleven years after this series of poems were written, he was vice-president at the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company in Connecticut. He continued to pursue a quiet life of poetry and correspondence and for the remainder of his life he nurtured his contemplative habit of observation and writing as he walked from home to work and back again. Few at Hartford knew of his world acclaim as a poet. While his major work is considered to have been written when he was much older, many of these early poems are firm classics in the American poetic canon, including: “Anecdote of the Jar,” “The Emperor of Ice Cream,” “Peter Quince at the Clavier,” “Sunday Morning,” “The Snow Man,” “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,” and many others. Stevens died of cancer in 1955, shortly after receiving that year’s Pulitzer Prize for poetry. These poems originally appeared in a variety of magazines (Others, Secession, Rogue, The Soil, The Modern School, Broom, Contact, The New Republic, The Measure, The Little Review, The Dial, and particularly in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse.) Nearly 70 of the 101 published poems were later collected in Steven’s first published collection of poems."

Wallace Stevens (Author), Alan Davis Drake (Narrator)

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Audiobooks by Wallace Stevens

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