Wallace Stevens

mtm · Post by **mtm** » April 15th, 2009, 2:43 pm

I'm interested in obtaining a copy of the journal Soil in which the Wallace Stevens poem "To The Roaring Wind" as originally published in 1917. Does anyone know where copies of this journal might be obtained?

RuthieG · Post by **RuthieG** » April 15th, 2009, 3:37 pm

I think you are rather in luck. It's here:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wallace_Stevens,_Primordia_(1917).djvu

(You'll have to copy and paste that link into your browser - it's one of those wiki links that isn't clickable.)

Ruth

[Edited by Cori to ascii-code the brackets and make it clickable anyway. <grin>]

mtm · Post by **mtm** » April 19th, 2009, 4:01 pm

Thanks so much for the info. I'm being told by Faber & Faber (who holds the Wallace Stevens rights in the UK) that in the UK (unlike the US for poems published before 1923) all copyright rights continue until 70 years after the author's death. True?

Post by **annise** » April 19th, 2009, 4:10 pm

That is correct - in fact most countries except USA have authors death + some number of years as the copyright . The Berne Convention originally proposed a minimum death +25 so all his children could be grown up - USA never signed that one - but the number of years keep going up in most countries

Anne

Cori · Post by **Cori** » April 20th, 2009, 2:28 am

The USA has Life+70 NOW, but different laws applied before 1978. Other countries have made these sorts of law-changes retrospective (or have split dates, like Australia most sensibly did) ... but the US basically has 3 possible sets of laws to apply, depending on when something was published (pre-1923, 1923-77, 1978+)