title: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
author:  Wallace Stevens 
description: Wallace Stevens was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, on October 2, 1879, and died in Hartford, Connecticut, on August 2, 1955.Although he had contributed to the <b>Harvard Advocate</b> while in college, he began to gain general recognition only when Harriet Monroe included four of his poems in a sepcial 1914 wartime issue of <b>Poetry</b>.<b>Harmonium</b>, his first volume of poems, was published in 1923, and was followed by <b>Ideas of Order</b> (1936), <b>The Man with the Blue Guitar</b> (1937), <b>Parts of a World</b> (1942), <b>Transport to Summer</b> (1947), <b>The Auroras of Autumn</b> (1950), <b>The Necessary Angel</b> (a volume of essays, 1951), <b>The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens</b> (1954), and <b>Opus Posthumous</b> (first published in 1957, edited by Samuel Frued Morse; a new, revised, and corrected edition by Milton J. Bates, 1989).Mr. Stevens was awarded the Bollingen Prize in Poetry of the Yale University Library for 1949.In 1951 he won the National Book Award in Poetry for <b>The Auroras of Autumn</b>, in 1955 he won it a second time for <b>The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens</b>, which was also awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1955.From 1916 on, he was associated with the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company, of which he became vice president in 1934.
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  The House of God
  by SAMUEL SHEM 
  The author wishes to express appreciation for permission to quote from the following: "The Man with
  the Blue Guitar" by Wallace Stevens from The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens © 1971 by Alfred A.
  Knopf, Inc. Lines from "Let the Mermaids Flirt with Me" are by Mississippi John Hurt, copyright © by
  Wynwood Music.
  To J and Ben
  We shall forget by day, except
  The moments when we choose to play
  The imagined pine, the imagined jay.
  —Wallace Stevens The Man with the Blue Guitar
  INTRODUCTION TO DELL'S TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF THE HOUSE OF GOD
  It's hard to believe that The House of God is now ten. What a life our ten-year-old has led! The author has
  found himself in the curious position of chasing after the youngster, traveling all across the globe,
  listening and speaking. Inevitably, thre