The Collected Public Domain Poems of Wallace Stevens, Volume 1
Gelesen von Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
Wallace Stevens
(4,643 Sterne; 7 Bewertungen)
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) (1 hr 7 min)
Chapters
Frogs Eat Butterflies, Snakes Eat Frogs, Hogs Eat Snakes, Men Eat Hogs
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Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
Bewertungen
Ash Umlat Schwa
(4 Sterne)
Wallace Stevens is one of the few modern poets in librivox. My favorite poem of his is The Snowman, which is included in this collection. Wallace's language is playful and and at times the sound of certain syllables is enough. The poems that stood out to me were the ones I was already familiar with. I pretty much tuned out the rest, since they made little sense to me and from the sound of it maybe the reader felt like that too. I recommend starting with the Emperor of Ice Cream. It is read with a lot of enthusiasm.
Free Listens Review
Sayeth
(5 Sterne)
Alan Davis-Drake is a professional-sounding reader. He reads the words carefully, with an ear for pauses and emphasis. I particularly reccomend "The Emperor of Ice-Cream." For a review of this poem, along with other reviews of free audiobooks, see www.freelistens.blogspot.com