Wallace Stevens is one of the greatest American poets of the 20th century. After graduating from law school in New York, he worked for most of his life in an insurance company in Hartford, did not advertise his poetry activities, and published in small avant-garde magazines. The poet published his debut collection “Harmonium” only in 1923, at the age of 43. This book combines philosophy and sensuality, a romantic cult of imagination and a decadent twist, impressionism and a keen pleasure in the sound of words. The author did not receive instant fame: Stevens was appreciated only by a few like-minded poets (Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams); most critics found the poet’s language too “dark” and “deliberately eccentric.” Recognition, prestigious literary awards, beloved status the poets of the intellectual elite will come to Stevens more than twenty years later. But of the dozen books he published during his lifetime, the most important will remain “Harmonium,” published almost simultaneously with such masterpieces of European modernism as Eliot’s “The Waste Land” (1922) and Pasternak’s “My Sister Life” (1922). In the proposed edition, this book (in an expanded version of 1931) is published in Russian in its entirety for the first time. CONTENTS: HARMONY (1923) (Translation by G. Kruzhkov) An anecdote with bison 7 Invective against swans 8 In South Carolina 9 A naked simpleton is going on her spring voyage 10 A plot against the Giant 11 Infanta Marina 12 Dominance of Black Tones 13 Snowman 15 Ordinary Women 16 Sugar Cane Boat 18 Le Monocle de Mon Oncle 19 Variations on a Williams Theme 24 Gradations of the Grand 25 Plowing on Sunday 26 Su est Pourtraicte, Madam Ste Ursule, et les Unze Mille Vierges 27 Mallows on the slumbering shores 29 A tropical novella 30 The Genevan Doctor 31 Another Weeping 32 Homunculus and La Belle Etoile 33 The Swimming of the Comedian (From Crispin's Notes) 35 The Sorrows of Don Yost 5 0Oh Florida, land of voluptuousness! 51A farewell look at lilacs 53Worms at the gates of heaven 54The daring hare 55Candle in the valley 56Anecdote about people in general 57Speech to Vincentina 58How to serve bananas 59Anecdote about cannes 60How to address clouds 61About the sky as an airy grave 62About the appearance of things 63Anecdote with the Peacock prince 64Elderly pious lady 65Refuge lonely 66 Sobbing burgher 67 Curtains in the house metaphysics 68 Banal time 69 Pre-spring depression 70 Ice Cream Emperor 71 Cuban doctor 72 Tea party in the palace Hoonah 73Disappointment at Ten O'Clock 74Sunday Morning 75Maiden Carrying a Lantern 79Stars over Tallapoosa 80Explanation 81Six Landscapes to Ponder 82Bantam Cockerels under the Pines 84Anecdote with a Jar 85The Palace of Babies 86Frogs Eat Flies. Snakes eat frogs. Pigs eat snakes. People eat pigs 87 Dreams of jasmine growing under a willow 88 Rosenblum's funeral 89 Pattern 91 Bird with copper claws 92 Life is movement 93 The wind is changing 94 Dialogue with a Polish aunt 95 Barbaric 96 Two in the lilac twilight 97 Theory 98 To the Giver of Music 99 Hymn from the Watermelon pavilion 101Peter Pigva at the clavichord 102Thirteen ways to draw a blackbird 105Artistic nature 108A person with chronic sore throat 109Death of a soldier 110Objection 111Surprises from supermen 112Sea filled with clouds 113Revolutionaries stopping to drink an orangeade 117 New England verses 118 Explanation of the moon 120 Anatomy of boredom 121 Square in the city 122 Sonatina for Hans Christian 123 Beautiful grape season 124 Two in Norfolk 125 Indian River 126 Tea 127 To the roaring wind 128 ADDITIONS OTHER POEM ENIYA (Translation by G. Kruzhkov) January joy 131 From the collection “Ideas of Order” (1936) 132 Farewell with Florida 132Mouse dance-macabre 134Lions in Sweden 135Farewell without options 136Conjecture about harmony in Key West 137Mozart, 1935 139Sun in March 140The inexplicable pleasure of whirling 141The enchanted castle 142From the collection “Parts of the World” (1942) 143Poetry as a destructive force 143Man in a landfill 144Rabbit, lord of spirits 146Dezembrum 147The riddle of the illusionist 148Candle like a halo 149Plate with peaches in Russia 150About modern poetry 151Decent dressed man with a beard 152From the collection “Swimming in the Summer” (1947) 153God is good. How beautiful is the night 153 The grave of old John Zeller 154 Chaos flying away and remaining 155 It was calm in the house, quiet in the world 156 The air dove 157 Towards the definition of the Highest Fiction 158 It must be abstract 158 It must be changeable 165 It must comfort 172 From the collection “Autumn Flashes” (1950 180C) ova in the sarcophagus 180 ARTICLES AND APHORISMS From the collection “The Necessary Angel” (1951) (Translation by L. Oborin) 184 The noble charioteer and the sound of words 184 The image of a young man as a mature poet 202 Imagination as a value 217 From notebooks (Translation by G. Kruzhkov) 229 Adagia 229 Materia poetica 236 APPENDICES: ETC. Venediktova. Imagination Analyst 241GM. Kruzhkov. Translator's Notes 264Dark Wallace 264Wallace Stevens: The Poet and His Masks 269A short tutorial on playing the “Harmonium” 286Three analyzes 296On Stevens’ late poetry 313G. Kruzhkov. Two poems 319Wallace Stevens, or On the appointment of a poet to the position of vice president of an insurance company 319Stone, or the Third anecdote about Wallace Stevens 320NOTES (Compiled by G.M. Kruzhkov, L.V. Oborin, A. Shvets) 322T.M. Kruzhkov. Stevens and Henri Rousseau 391Conditional abbreviations 392