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Harmonium est primus liber poematum Wallace Stevens poetae Americani, anno 1923 ab Alfredo A. Knopf in editione exemplorum 1500 prolatus. Congeries octoginta quinque poemata comprehendit, quae a paucis versibus ("Life Is Motion") ad nonnullos centies ("The Comedian as the Letter C") variant. Liber anno 1931 reimpressus est, tribus poematibus omissis et quattuordecim poematis novis additis.[1]


Solum centum exemplaria primae editionis empta sunt antequam domus editoria reliquum destruxit,[2] quo facto, videbatur Marcus Van Doren poeta et criticus fuisse rectus cum in The Nation anno 1923 scripsisset ingenium Stevensianum "est tentans, perversum, subtilissimum; ac numquam erit populo gratum."[3][4] Sed ante 1960, studia Stevensiana fiebantur "conglomeratus multinationalis."[5][6] Poema "Anecdote of the Jar" non solum subscriptio Stevensiana, sed etiam icon poesis Civitatum Foederatarum factum est. Plurima poemata Harmonii ab anno 1914 ad annum 1923 in variis magazinis prolata sunt.[7]



Quae insunt |


Ex indice capitum Harmonii in libro a Francisco Kermode et Ioanna Richards edito (pp. ix–xi):


  • 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 Est Pourtraicte, Madame Ste Ursule, et Les Unze Mille Vierges

  • Hibiscus on the Sleeping Shores

  • Fabliau of Florida

  • The Doctor of Geneva

  • Another Weeping Woman

  • Homunculus et La Belle Etoile

  • The Comedian as the Letter C

  • From the Misery of Don Joost

  • O Florida, Venereal Soil

  • Last Look at the Lilacs

  • The Worms at Heaven's Gate

  • The Jack-Rabbit

  • Anecdote of Men by the Thousand

  • The Silver Plough Boy

  • The Apostrophe to Vincentine

  • Floral Decorations for Bananas

  • Anecdote of Canna

  • Of the Manner of Addressing Clouds

  • Of Heaven Considered as a Tomb

  • Of the Surface of Things

  • Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks

  • A High-Toned Old Christian Woman

  • The Place of the Solitaires

  • The Weeping Burgher

  • The Curtains in the House of the Metaphysician

  • Banal Sojourn

  • Depression Before Spring

  • The Emperor of Ice-Cream

  • The Cuban Doctor

  • Tea at he Palaz of Hoon

  • Exposition of the Contents of a Cab

  • Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock

  • Sunday Morning

  • The Virgin Carrying a Lantern

  • Stars at Tallapoosa

  • Explanation

  • Six Significant Landscapes

  • Bantams in Pine-Woods

  • Anecdote of the Jar

  • Palace of the Babies

  • Frogs Eat Butterflies. Snakes Eat Frogs. Hogs Eat Snakes. Men Eat Hogs.

  • Jasmine's Beautiful Thoughts Underneath the Willow

  • Cortège for Rosenbloom

  • Tattoo

  • The Bird with the Coppery, Keen Claws

  • Life is Motion

  • Architecture

  • The Wind Shifts

  • Colloquy with a Polish Aunt

  • Gubbinal

  • Two Figures in Dense Violet Night

  • Theory

  • To the One of Fictive Music

  • Hymn from a Watermelon Pavilion

  • Peter Quince at the Clavier

  • Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

  • Nomad Exquisite

  • Tea

  • To the Roaring WindPoems Added to Harmonium (1931)

  • The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad

  • The Death of a Soldier

  • Negation

  • The Surprises of the Superhuman

  • Sea Surface Full of Clouds

  • The Revolutionists Stop for Orangeade

  • New England Verses

  • Lunar Paraphrase

  • Anatomy of Monotony

  • The Public Square

  • Sonatina to Hans Christian

  • In the Clear Season of Grapes

  • Two at Norfolk

  • Indian River


Notae |



  1. Heyen 1966:147. Poemata anni 1923 in editione nova omissa sunt "The Silver Plough-Boy," "Exposition of the Contents of a Cab," et "Architecture." Poemata nova in editione anni 1931 sunt "The Man whose Pharynx was Bad," "The Death of a Soldier," "Negation," "Sea Surface full of Clouds," "The Revolutionists Shop for Orangeade," "New England Verses," "Lunar Paraphrase," "Anatomy of Monotony," "The Public Square," "Sonatina to Hans Christian," "In the Clear Season of Grapes," "Two at Norfolk," et "Indian River."


  2. Addit Robertus Rehder: "During the 1924 Christmas season, two young poets, Richard Blackmur and Conrad Aiken, found that the first edition had been remaindered in the basement of Filene's, the Boston department store, at 11¢ a copy. They recognized the book's merit and bought all the copies to send as Christmas cards to their friends. The poet took a more ironic view of the book's sales. Around July 1924, he wrote to Harriet Monroe: 'My royalties for the first half of 1924 amounted to $6.70. I shall have to charter a boat and take my friends around the world' (L 243)." (Pro epistula, vide Stevens 1966:243.)


  3. Anglice: "is tentative, perverse, and superfine; and it will never be popular."


  4. Van Doren 1923:400.


  5. Anglice "multinational conglomerate."


  6. Axelrod et Reese 1988:11.


  7. H. Bevis: "sixty-seven of the seventy-four poems of the 1923 Harmonium had first been published in small magazines between 1914 and 1923." Prima editio sic in rebus prioribus dicit: "The poems in this book, with the exception of The Comedian as the Letter C and a few others, have been published before in Others, Secession, 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, of Chicago, edited by Harriet Monroe" (Edelstein 1973:3).



Bibliographia |


  • Axelrod, Steven Gould, et Helen Deese. 1988. Critical Essays on Wallace Stevens. G. K. Hall & Co.

  • Bates, Milton J. 1985. Wallace Stevens: A Mythology of Self. University of California Press.

  • Bevis, William W. 1970. The Arrangement of Harmonium. ELH 37(3).

  • Blessing, Richard Allen. 1970. Wallace Stevens' "Whole Harmonium." Syracuse University Press.

  • Bloom, Harold. 1988. Reduction to the First Idea. In Critical Essays on Wallace Stevens. ed. Steven Gould Axelrod et Helen Deese. G. K. Hall & Co.

  • Buttel, Robert. 1967. Wallace Stevens, The Making of Harmonium. Princeton University Press.

  • Cook, Eleanor. 2007. A Reader's Guide to Wallace Stevens. Princeton University Press.

  • Critchley, Simon. 2005. Things As They Are: Philosophy in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens. Routledge.

  • Edelstein, J. M. 1973. Wallace Stevens: A Descriptive Bibliography. University of Pittsburgh Press.

  • Feinstein, Sascha. 1992. Stanzas of Color: Wallace Stevens and Paul Klee. Wallace Stevens Journal 16(1):64–81.

  • Gardner, John. 1982. Five Partsongs to Poems by Wallace Stevens, op. 142, nos. 1–5. Oxford University press. Score.

  • Gardner, Sebastian. 1994. Wallace Stevens and Metaphysics: The Plain Sense of Things. European Journal of Philosophy 2(3):322–344.

  • Heringman, Bernard.1949. "Wallace Stevens: The Use of Poetry. ELH 16(4).

  • Heyen, William. 1966. The Text of Harmonium. Twentieth Century Literature 12(3).

  • Josephson, Matthew. Recognitio Harmonium. Reimpressa in Axelrod et Deese.

  • Kermode, Frank, et Joan Richardson, eds. 1997. Stevens: Collected Poetry & Prose. Library of America.

  • Kessler, Edward. 1972. Images of Wallace Stevens. Rutgers University Press.

  • Maeder, Beverly. 2007. Stevens and Linguistic Structure. In The Cambridge Campanion to Wallace Stevens, ed. John N. Serio. Cambridge University Press.

  • Monroe, Harriet. Comment: A Cavalier of Beauty. Commentarius in Axelrod et Deese reimpressus.

  • Morse, Samuel French. Wallace Stevens, Bergson, Pater. ELH 31(1).

  • Munson, Gorham. 1925.The Dandyism of Wallace Stevens. Dial 79.

  • Nicholson, Mervyn. 1988. Reading Stevens' Riddles. College English 50(1):13–31.

  • Peterson, Margaret. 1983. Wallace Stevens and the idealist tradition. UMI Research Press.

  • Powys, Llewelyn. 1024. The Thirteenth Way. Dial 78 (Iulio).

  • Prasad, Veena Rani. 1975. Color-Scheme in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens. Indian Journal of American Studies Ianuario/Iulio: 1–10.

  • Qian, Zhaoming. 2001. Late Stevens, Nothingness, and the Orient. Wallace Stevens Journal 25(2):164–172.

  • Rehder, Robert. 2007. Stevens and Harmonium. In The Cambridge Campanion to Wallace Stevens, ed. John N. Serio. Cambridge University Press.

  • Richardson, Joan. 1982. A Reading of "Sea Surface Full of Clouds." Wallace Stevens Journal 6(3/4):60–68.

  • Richardson, Joan. 1988. Wallace Stevens: The Later Years 1923–1955. Beech Tree Books.

  • Rosenfeld, Paul. 1925. Men Seen. Dial Press.

  • Rosu, Anca. 1995. The metaphysics of sound in Wallace Stevens. University of Alabama Press.

  • Serio, John N., ed. 2007. The Cambridge Companion to Wallace Stevens. Cambridge University Press.

  • Sharpe, Tony. 2000. Wallace Stevens: A Literary Life. Macmillan Press.

  • Stegman, Michael O. 1992. Checklist of Musical Compositions Relating to Stevens. The Wallace Stevens Journal 16(2).

  • Stevens, Holly. 1966. Letters of Wallace Stevens. University of California Press.

  • Strom, Martha. Wallace Stevens' Revisions of Crispin's Journal: A Reaction Against the "Local." Commentarius in Axelrod et Deese reimpressus.

  • Suberchicot, Alain. 1998. Treize façons de regarder Wallace Stevens: Une écriture de la présence. L'Harmattan.

  • Tate, Allen. 1929. American Poetry since 1920. Bookman volume 68.

  • Van Doren, Mark. 1923. Poets and Wits. In Nation 117(340).

  • Vendler, Helen. 1969. On Extended Wings. Cantabrigiae Massachusettae: Harvard University Press.

  • Vendler, Helen. 1984. Words Chosen Out Of Desire. University of Tennessee Press.

  • Vendler, Helen. 2007. Stevens and the Lyric Speaker. In The Cambridge Campanion to Wallace Stevens, ed. John N. Serio. Cambridge University Press.


  • The Wallace Stevens Journal. 1977. Current Bibliography. 1(3–4).

  • Winters, Yvor. 1922. A Cool Master. Poetry 19(5).


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