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Wallace Stevens

(1879-1955)

Attended Harvard (Undergraduate, 1897-1900)

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

  Academy of American Poets Biography
Harvard American National Biography Online

HARVARD COLLECTIONS

General Overview
Hollis HOLLIS Catalog Author Search: Wallace Stevens
Hollis HOLLIS Catalog Subject Search: Wallace Stevens
Rare Materials
Oasis Finding Aid:Wallace Stevens Papers 
Includes poems, essays, addresses, and correspondence, for example, the manuscript of "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction," poems from Parts of a World (1942), an incomplete and unpublished section of "Examination of the Hero in a Time of War," and "Les Plus Belles Pages" with his commentary on it.
Oasis Finding Aid: Letters to Philips S. May 
Consists of twenty-seven letters from Wallace Stevens to Philip S. May, partially interpolated with carbons of May's replies, and two letters of Arthur Gray Powell to May.
Digital Highlights
Harvard Literature Online: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens (Alfred A. Knopf, 1954)
Reading of October 8, 1954 (studio recording)
Sponsored by the Poetry Room
  audio "The Dwarf" (2:10)
  audio "This Solitude of Cataracts" (2:26)
  audio "The Woman in Sunshine" (1:16)
  audio "The Green Plant" (1:34)
  audio "The Poem that Took the Place of a Mountain" (1:38)
  audio "Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour" (2:10)
  audio "How to Live. What to Do" (2:02)
  audio "To the One of Fictive Music" (3:48)
  audio "Not Ideas About the Thing but the Thing Itself" (1:32)
  audio The Auroras of Autumn (Parts I-V) (13:02)
  audio The Auroras of Autumn (Parts VI-X) (11:27)

ADDITIONAL LINKS

  Huntington Library: Inventory of the Wallace Stevens Papers, 1856-1975