Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose
New York: Alfred A Knopf Inc, 1989. First Corrected and Revised Edition.
No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Fine Hardcover in a Fine Jacket. 10 inches tall; xiii, [1] 334 [1] pages with an index.
This volune gathers work by Wallace Stevensthat remained unpublished at the time of his death, offering a revealing supplement to his established canon. Edited by Samuel French Morse, the volume brings together poems, dramatic fragments, and prose pieces that illuminate Stevens’ sustained preoccupation with imagination, reality, and the shaping power of language.
The materials are often exploratory in tone—less polished than the major collections, but intellectually vivid—allowing readers to see Stevens thinking on the page, working through ideas that undergird his mature poetry.
Stevens is one of the central figures of American literary modernism. His work helped redefine lyric poetry in the twentieth century by insisting that the imagination is not an escape from reality but a way of ordering and sustaining it. Opus Posthumous deepens appreciation of that achievement by revealing the range of his experiments across genres and his philosophical seriousness, qualities that continue to influence poets, critics, and philosophers alike.
Subjects: Imagination and reality, aesthetics, modernism, philosophy of art, poetic process, Modernist poetry, literary prose, verse drama.
Item #21373
ISBN: 0394577922
Price: $24.00
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