Harmonium (poetry collection)

Harmonium is a book of poetry by Wallace Stevens. It was published in 1923 by Knopf. This collection has 85 poems of different lengths. Harmonium was re-released in 1931. The 1931 release added fourteen new poems and removed three others.Heyen, William. p. 147. The poems from the 1923 that were omitted from the 1931 edition are "The Silver Plough-Boy," "Exposition of the Contents of a Cab" and "Architecture". Those introduced in the 1931 edition are "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" and "Indian River".

Most of Harmoniums poems were published between 1914 and 1923 in various magazines.Bevis, H.: "...sixty-seven of the seventy-four poems of the 1923 Harmonium had first been published in small magazines between 1914 and 1923." The first edition of Harmonium has this in its front matter: "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, p. 3) The poems are now in the public domain in America and similar jurisdictions.See Buttel for details about the publication dates of individual poems. See also the LibriVox site for the complete public domain poems of Wallace Stevens. 

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  (1923 Edition)