Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 53. Chapters: Anatomy of Monotony, Anecdote of Canna, Anecdote of Men by the Thousands, Anecdote of the Jar, Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks, Another Weeping Woman, A High-Toned Old Christian Woman, Banal Sojourn, Bantam in Pine-Woods, Colloquy with a Polish Aunt, Cortege for Rosenbloom, Cy Est Pourtraicte, Madame Ste Ursule, et Les Unze Mille Vierges, Depression Before Spring, Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock, Doctor of Geneva, Domination of Black, Explanation (poem), Fabliau of Florida, Floral Decorations for Bananas, Frogs Eat Butterflies. Snakes Eat Frogs. Hogs Eat Snakes. Men Eat Hogs, From the Misery of Don Joost, Gubbinal, Harmonium (poetry collection), Hibiscus on the Sleeping Shores, Homunculus et la Belle Etoile, Hymn From a Watermelon Pavilion, Indian River (Stevens poem), Infanta Marina, Invective Against Swans, Jasmine's Beautiful Thoughts Underneath The Willow, Last Looks at the Lilacs, Le Monocle de Mon Oncle, Life Is Motion, Lunar Paraphrase, Metaphors of a Magnifico, Negation (poem), Nuances of a Theme by Williams, Of Heaven Considered as a Tomb, Of Modern Poetry, Of the Surface of Things, On the Manner of Addressing Clouds, O Florida, Venereal Soil, Palace of the Babies, Peter Quince at the Clavier, Ploughing on Sunday, Sea Surface full of Clouds, Six Significant Landscapes, Stars at Tallapoosa, Sunday Morning (poem), Tattoo (poem), Tea (poem), Tea at the Palaz of Hoon, Theory (poem), The Apostrophe to Vincentine, The Auroras of Autumn, The Bird with the Coppery, Keen Claws, The Comedian as the Letter C, The Cuban Doctor, The Curtains in the House of the Metaphysician, The Death of a Soldier, The Emperor of Ice-Cream (poem), The Idea of Order at Key West, The Jack-Rabbit, The Load Of Sugar-Cane, The Man whose Pharynx was bad, The Ordinary Women, The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage, The Place of the Solitaires, The Plot Against the Giant, The Public Square, The Revolutionists stop for Orangeade, The Snow Man, The Surprises of the Superhuman, The Virgin Carrying a Lantern, The Weeping Burgher, The Wind Shifts, The Worms at Heaven's Gate, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, To The One Of Fictive Music, Two Figures In Dense Violet Night, Valley Candle. Excerpt: Harmonium is a book of poetry by U.S. poet Wallace Stevens. His first book, it was published in 1923 by Knopf in an edition of 1500 copies. He was in middle age at that time, forty-four years old. The collection comprises 85 poems, ranging in length from just a few lines ("Life Is Motion") to several hundred ("The Comedian as the Letter C"). See footnote 1 for the table of contents. Harmonium was reissued in 1931 with three poems omitted and fourteen new poems added. The book's first edition sold only a hundred copies before being remaindered, suggesting that the poet and critic Mark Van Doren had it right when he wrote in The Nation in 1923 that Stevens's wit "is tentative, perverse, and superfine; and it will never be popular." Yet by 1960 the cottage industry of Stevens studies was becoming a "multinational conglomerate," more than fulfilling Van Doren's prophecy that some day a monograph would be written that would pay tribute to Stevens's "delicately enunciated melody, his economy, his clipped cleanliness of line, his gentle excellence." A library search in the twenty-first century at a typical university could be expected to bring up about 200 books under the topic "Wallace Stevens." The Wallace Stevens Journal has been published by the Wallace Stevens Society since 1979, and its editor, John N. Serio, has collected some of the journal's essays in The Cambridge Companion to Wallace Stevens. An audiobook of his complete public domain poems was completed by Librivox in 2007. "Anecdote of the Jar" has become not only Stevens's signature but also an icon of American poetry. Most of Harmonium's...