| The Auroras of Autumn | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Wallace Stevens |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Poetry |
| Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Publication date | September, 1950 |
| Preceded by | Transport to Summer |
| Followed by | Collected Poems |
The Auroras of Autumn is a 1950 book of poetry by Wallace Stevens. It won the 1951 National Book Award for Poetry.
It features the 1948 Stevens poem of the same name, whose title refers to the Aurora Borealis, or the "Northern Lights", in the fall.[1]
The book collects 32 Stevens poems written between 1947 and 1950, and was his last collection before his 1954 Collected Poems.[2]
Poems[]
"The Auroras of Autumn" is a 240-line poem divided into ten sections of 24 lines each. It is considered one of Stevens' more challenging and "difficult" works,[3] and a classic example of the English Romantic tradition.[4]
Another notable poem in the book is The Owl in the Sarcophagus, an elegy for Stevens' best friend, Henry Church.[5]
Contents[]
- The Auroras of Autumn (I-X)
- Page from a Tale
- Large Red Man Reading
- This Solitude of Cataracts
- In the Element of Antagonisms
- In a Bad Time
- The Beginning
- The Countryman
- The Ultimate Poem Is Abstract
- Bouquet of Roses in Sunlight
- The Owl in the Sarcophagus
- Saint John and the Back-Ache
- Celle Qui Fût Héaulmiette
- Imago 59
- A Primitive like an Orb
- Metaphor as Degeneration
- The Woman in Sunshine
- Reply to Papini
- The Bouquet
- World without Peculiarity
- Our Stars Come from Ireland
- The Westwardness of Everything
- Puella Parvula
- The Novel
- What We See Is What We Think
- A Golden Woman in a Silver Mirror
- The Old Lutheran Bells at Home
- Questions Are Remarks
- Study of Images (I-II)
- An Ordinary Evening in New Haven (I-XXXI)
- Things of August (I-X)
- Angel Surrounded by Paysans
References[]
- Beckett, Lucy. Wallace Stevens (Cambridge University Press, 1974).
Notes[]
- ↑ "The Auroras of Autumn (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)". eNotes.com. http://www.enotes.com/auroras-autumn-salem/auroras-autumn. Retrieved May 14, 2010.
- ↑ Cook, Eleanor. A Reader's Guide to Wallace Stevens (Princeton University Press, 2007), p. 237.
- ↑ Unsworth, John. "An Echo of Baudelaire in 'The Auroras of Autumn'," American Literature vol. 60, #1 (Mar. 1988).
- ↑ Finch, Annie (October 28, 2009). "The Poetry of Autumn: Forget spring. Fall is the season for poetry,". Poetry Foundation. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/article.html?id=238068.
- ↑ Bloom, Harold (1980). Wallace Stevens: The Poems of Our Climate. Cornell University Press..
External links[]
- Text
- The Auroras of Autumn at Questia.
- Audio
- Sound files at Harvard Library.
- About
- Review of The Auroras of Autumn in The New York Times (September 10, 1950)
- Guest lecture focusing on the poem The Auroras of Autumn (part of Open Yale Courses).
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