Collected Public Domain Poems of Wallace Stevens, Volume 2: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Collected Public Domain Poems of Wallace Stevens, Volume 2, credited to Wallace Stevens, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Collected Public Domain Poems of Wallace Stevens, Volume 2. Read in English by Winston Tharp; Ruth Golding; Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010) 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)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Collected Public Domain Poems of Wallace Stevens, Volume 2
• Author credits: Wallace Stevens
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 43
• Listed recording duration: 1:22:46

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• poem

Opening tracks: first 24 of 43

1. 01 - Architecture for the Adoration of Beauty — 2:48
2. 02 - Ballade of the Pink Parasol — 1:38
3. 03 - Colloquy with a Polish Aunt — 1:07
4. 04 - Cy est Pourtraicte, Madame Ste Ursule, et Les Unze Mille Vierges — 1:46
5. 05 - The Doctor of Geneva — 1:11
6. 06 - Fabliau of Florida — 0:49
7. 07 - A High-toned Old Christian Woman — 1:41
8. 08 - Homunculus et la Belle Etoile — 1:43
9. 09 - Inscription for a Monument — 0:55
10. 10 - ''Lettres d'un Soldat'' I - IX — 10:19
11. 11 - Lulu Morose — 1:04
12. 12 - The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad — 1:32
13. 13 - Metaphors of a Magnifico — 1:16
14. 14 - Moment of Light — 3:29
15. 15 - Le Monocle de Mon Oncle — 7:59
16. 16 - Nuances of a Theme by Williams — 1:08
17. 17 - Of Heaven, Considered as a Tomb — 1:13
18. 18 - Of the Surface of Things — 1:01
19. 19 - On the Manner of Addressing Clouds — 1:12
20. 20 - The Ordinary Women — 1:40
21. 21 - Palace of the Babies — 1:24
22. 22 - Peter Parasol — 1:00
23. 23 - The Plot against the Giant — 1:06
24. 24 - Primordia — 3:55

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