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''The Auroras of Autumn'' is a 1950 book of poetry by Wallace Stevens. It features the 1948 Stevens poem of the same name, whose title refers to the Aurora Borealis, or the "Northern Lights", in the fall.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Auroras of Autumn (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition) )〕 The book collects 32 Stevens poems written between 1947 and 1950, and was his last collection before his 1954 ''Collected Poems''.〔Cook, Eleanor. ''A Reader's Guide to Wallace Stevens'' (Princeton University Press, 2007), p. 237.〕 "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"〔Unsworth, John. "(An Echo of Baudelaire in 'The Auroras of Autumn', )" ''American Literature'' vol. 60, #1 (Mar. 1988).〕 works, and a classic example of the English Romantic tradition. Another notable poem in the book is ''The Owl in the Sarcophagus'', an elegy for Stevens' best friend, Henry Church.〔.〕 It won the 1951 National Book Award for Poetry.〔 ("National Book Awards – 1951" ). National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-02-25. (With acceptance speech by Stevens and essay by Katie Peterson from the Awards 60-year anniversary publication.)〕 == Notes == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Auroras of Autumn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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