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.
zlib_text: S t e p h e n_KING___'SALEM'S LOT_________________________________Hodder &
  Stoughton__First published in the USA by Doubleday & Company Inc in 1975.
  First published in Great Britain by New English Library in 1976, Copyright
  (c) 1975 by Stephen King.__Grateful acknowledgements are made to the
  following for permission to include copyright selections.__First stanza from
  'The Return of the Exile' and one Haiku from the book of Poems, by Georae
  Seferis. English Translation (c) Rex Warner 1960. Published by Little, Brown
  and Company in association with Atlantic Monthly Press and Bodley Head,
  Ltd.__'The Emperor of ice Cream', copyright 1923 and renewed 1951 by Wallace
  Stevens. Reprinted from The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, by permission
  of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., and Faber & Faber, Ltd.__Excerpt from The Haunting
  of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson, Copyright (c) 1959 by Shirley Jackson.
  Reprinted by permission of Viking Press, Inc., and Brandt and Brandt.__One
  line of lyric from 'North 