Audiobooks by Wallace Stevens

Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose Audiobook

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.

Wallace Stevens (Author), TBD (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.

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

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