Opus Posthumous

By Stevens, Wallace
Opus Posthumous

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Authors: Stevens, Wallace
Copyright: 1989
Format: Paperback
GTIN13: 9780679725343
ISBN10: 0679725342
Page Count: 352
Dimensions: 5.51x0.85x8.52
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Jacket Notes: This book has been edited to correct the previous editions errors and to incorporate material that has come to light since original publication. A third of the poems and essays in this edition are new to the volume.
When Opus Posthumous first appeared in 1957, it was an appropriate capstone to the career of one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. It included many poems missing from Stevens's Collected Poems, along with Stevens's characteristically inventive prose and pieces for the theater. Now Milton J. Bates, the author of the acclaimed Wallace Stevens: A Mythology of Self, has edited and revised Opus Posthumous to correct the previous edition's errors and to incorporate material that has come to light since original publication. A third of the poems and essays in this edition are new to the volume. The resulting book is an invaluable literary document whose language and insights are fresh, startling, and eloquent.

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When Opus Posthumous first appeared in 1957, it was an appropriate capstone to the career of one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. It included many poems missing from Stevens's Collected Poems, along with Stevens's characteristically inventive prose and pieces for the theater.

Now Milton J. Bates, the author of the acclaimed Wallace Stevens: A Mythology of Self, has edited and revised Opus Posthumous to correct the previous edition's errors and to incorporate material that has come to light since original publication. A third of the poems and essays in this edition are new to the volume. The resulting book is an invaluable literary document whose language and insights are fresh, startling, and eloquent.

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