The Collected Public Domain Poems of Wallace Stevens, Volume 2


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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.

Volume 1 of this collection may be found at https://librivox.org/the-complete-public-domain-poems-of-wallace-stevens-volume-1-of-2/. (1 hr 22 min)

Chapters

Architecture for the Adoration of Beauty 2:48 Read by Winston Tharp
Ballade of the Pink Parasol 1:38 Read by Winston Tharp
Colloquy with a Polish Aunt 1:07 Read by Ruth Golding
Cy est Pourtraicte, Madame Ste Ursule, et Les Unze Mille Vierges 1:46 Read by Ruth Golding
The Doctor of Geneva 1:11 Read by Winston Tharp
Fabliau of Florida 0:49 Read by Winston Tharp
A High-toned Old Christian Woman 1:41 Read by Winston Tharp
Homunculus et la Belle Etoile 1:43 Read by Winston Tharp
Inscription for a Monument 0:55 Read by Winston Tharp
''Lettres d'un Soldat'' I - IX 10:19 Read by Ruth Golding
Lulu Morose 1:04 Read by Winston Tharp
The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad 1:32 Read by Winston Tharp
Metaphors of a Magnifico 1:16 Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
Moment of Light 3:29 Read by Ruth Golding
Le Monocle de Mon Oncle 7:59 Read by Winston Tharp
Nuances of a Theme by Williams 1:08 Read by Winston Tharp
Of Heaven, Considered as a Tomb 1:13 Read by Winston Tharp
Of the Surface of Things 1:01 Read by Winston Tharp
On the Manner of Addressing Clouds 1:12 Read by Winston Tharp
The Ordinary Women 1:40 Read by Winston Tharp
Palace of the Babies 1:24 Read by Winston Tharp
Peter Parasol 1:00 Read by Ruth Golding
The Plot against the Giant 1:06 Read by Ruth Golding
Primordia 3:55 Read by Winston Tharp
Quatrain 'Go not, young cloud' 0:37 Read by Winston Tharp
The Silver Plough-boy 1:13 Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
Six Significant Landscapes 3:06 Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
Song 'Ah, yes! beyond these barren walls' 0:52 Read by Winston Tharp
Song 'She loves me or loves me not' 0:46 Read by Winston Tharp
Sonnet 'Come, said the world' 1:11 Read by Winston Tharp
Sonnet 'If we are leaves that fall' 1:14 Read by Winston Tharp
Sonnet 'I strode along my beaches…' 1:09 Read by Winston Tharp
Sonnet 'Lo, even as I passed' 1:11 Read by Winston Tharp
Sonnet 'There shines the morning star' 1:13 Read by Winston Tharp
Stars at Tallapoosa 1:34 Read by Winston Tharp
Street Songs 2:52 Read by Winston Tharp
Sunday Morning 4:32 Read by Winston Tharp
Tea at the Palaz of Hoon 1:09 Read by Winston Tharp
To the Morn 1:14 Read by Winston Tharp
To the One of Fictive Music 2:22 Read by Winston Tharp
Vita mea 1:17 Read by Winston Tharp
The Weeping Burgher 1:08 Read by Winston Tharp
The Worms at Heaven's Gate 1:10 Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)

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I enjoyed this selection. the readers overall did a good job. reading poetry …


(5 stars)

Very good narration. Makes the poems more accessible.