TheCollectedPoemsofWallaceStevens

VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, FEBRUARY 1990 Copyright © 1923, 1931, 1935, 1937, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1954 by Wallace Stevens Copyright renewed 1982 by Holly Stevens All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., in 1954. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955. The collected poems of Wallace Stevens. Originally published: New York Knopf, 1954. I. Title. PS3537.T4753 1982 811′.52 82-4735 eISBN: 978-0-307-79187-0 AACR2 v3.1 PHOTOGRAPH BY SYLVIA SALMI Contents Cover Title Page Copyright HARMONIUM Earthy Anecdote Invective against Swans In the Carolinas The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage The Plot against the Giant Infanta Marina Domination of Black The Snow Man The Ordinary Women The Load of Sugar-Cane Le Monocle de Mon Oncle Nuances of a Theme by Williams Metaphors of a Magnifico Ploughing on Sunday Cy E......