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Harmonium

Wallace Stevens · 1923

Original text in English.

This collection, in a sumptuous and rare language, makes imagination the very subject of poetry.

Poetry · 75 parts · about 13 000 words · about 57 min of reading

Contents

1. Ouverture1 min
2. Earthy Anecdote1 min
3. Invective against Swans1 min
4. In the Carolinas1 min
5. The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage1 min
6. The Plot against the Giant1 min
7. Infanta Marina1 min
8. Domination of Black1 min
9. The Snow Man1 min
10. The Ordinary Women1 min
11. The Load of Sugar-Cane1 min
12. Le Monocle de Mon Oncle4 min
13. Nuances of a Theme by Williams1 min
14. Metaphors of a Magnifico1 min
15. Ploughing on Sunday1 min
16. Cy Est Pourtraicte, Madame Ste Ursule, et Les Unze Mille Vierges1 min
17. Hibiscus on the Sleeping Shores1 min
18. Fabliau of Florida1 min
19. The Doctor of Geneva1 min
20. Another Weeping Woman1 min
21. Homunculus et la Belle Etoile1 min
22. The Comedian as the Letter C17 min
23. From the Misery of Don Joost1 min
24. O, Florida, Venereal Soil1 min
25. Last Looks at the Lilacs1 min
26. The Worms at Heaven’s Gate1 min
27. The Jack-Rabbit1 min
28. Valley Candle1 min
29. Anecdote of Men by the Thousand1 min
30. The Silver Plough-Boy1 min
31. The Apostrophe to Vincentine1 min
32. Floral Decorations for Bananas1 min
33. Anecdote of Canna1 min
34. Of the Manner of Addressing Clouds1 min
35. Of Heaven Considered as a Tomb1 min
36. Of the Surface of Things1 min
37. Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks1 min
38. A High-Toned Old Christian Woman1 min
39. The Place of the Solitaires1 min
40. The Weeping Burgher1 min
41. The Curtains in the House of the Metaphysician1 min
42. Banal Sojourn1 min
43. Depression before Spring1 min
44. The Emperor of Ice-Cream1 min
45. The Cuban Doctor1 min
46. Tea at the Palaz of Hoon1 min
47. Exposition of the Contents of a Cab1 min
48. Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock1 min
49. Sunday Morning4 min
50. The Virgin Carrying a Lantern1 min
51. Stars at Tallapoosa1 min
52. Explanation1 min
53. Six Significant Landscapes1 min
54. Bantams in Pine-Woods1 min
55. Anecdote of the Jar1 min
56. Palace of the Babies1 min
57. Frogs Eat Butterflies. Snakes Eat Frogs. Hogs Eat Snakes. Men Eat Hogs1 min
58. Jasmine’s Beautiful Thoughts Underneath the Willow1 min
59. Cortège for Rosenbloom1 min
60. Tattoo1 min
61. The Bird with the Coppery, Keen Claws1 min
62. Life Is Motion1 min
63. Architecture1 min
64. The Wind Shifts1 min
65. Colloquy with a Polish Aunt1 min
66. Gubbinal1 min
67. Two Figures in Dense Violet Night1 min
68. Theory1 min
69. To the One of Fictive Music1 min
70. Hymn from a Watermelon Pavilion1 min
71. Peter Quince at the Clavier1 min
72. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird1 min
73. Nomad Exquisite1 min
74. Tea1 min
75. To the Roaring Wind1 min

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