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abstraction Stevens’ embracing of 4, 77, 87, 97, 182, autotelic abstraction 213 184–5 and the bourgeois 5, 97, 107, 148, 162, 165, in Stevens’ later career 2–3, 99, 185, 209 167, 203, 231 Stevens’ modifying of 5, 11, 143, 165, 166, ‘cool’ and ‘warm’ abstraction 2, 5, 20, 24, 172, 174, 229 25, 167, 205, 213, 230 and textual speakers 4, 27, 55, 58, 60, 63, and domesticity 5, 25, 146, 210, 216, 218, 66–76, 77, 86, 87, 90, 95, 97, 98, 109, 220, 221, 223, 225, 229 110, 111, 112, 114, 118, 119, 121, 126, 127, expressions of 4, 25, 28, 210 131, 134, 135, 156, 229, See also idealist ‘I’ and gastronomy. See gastronomy and time 91, 102, 189–98 as generalization 18, 19, 23 and the visual 19, 26–7, 60, 76, 86, 94, 95–7 and the habitual 83, 94, 133, 227 Aestheticism 7 as human task 8, 26, 132, 179, 205, 229 Alcestis Press, The 31, 36, 49, 55, 56, 155 and idealism. See philosophy for ‘idealism’ Altieri, Charles 6, 23, 26–7, 28, 80, 134, 142 and inhumanity 8, 138, 203 Arensberg, Walter 218 and mediation 76, 94, 98, 134, 163, 170, 172, Ariadne 126, 127–9 174, 180, 183, 199 Armory Show, The 209, 212 and mental processes 5 Arnold, Matthew 80, 81 and metaphor 103, 176–8, 185–203 Arp, Jean 213–14 misunderstandings concerning 4, 9, 133 art and art-collecting. See painting pejorative abstraction 7, 20, 25, 45, 49, 53, Auberjonois, René Victor 217 56, 57, 58, 67, 68, 69, 72, 74, 80, 82, 104, Auden, W. H. 7, 75–6 129, 138, 193 Avignon 220 and philosophy 3, 4, See also philosophy for ‘idealism’ Babbitt, Irving 37 and the physical 13, 26, 29, 51, 60, 73, 87, Bacon, Francis 95, 130, 138 93–6, 100, 102, 116, 132, 133, 134–5, 155, Barr, Alfred H. 210, 212 156, 160, 214, 221 Basel 208 and pleasure 29, 92 Bates, Milton J. 8 poet as abstract 3, 100, 101, 189 Baudelaire, Charles 2 pragmatic abstraction 185–203 Bauhaus, The 213 and pure poetry. See pure poetry Bayes, Nora 73 and the real 19, 23, 26 Beethoven, Ludwig van 230 as removal 1, 3, 52, 57, 58–9, 67, 213 Bell, Graham 116 senses of abstraction 21–3, 58–60, 99, 114 Benamou, Michel 15, 83, 94 as sensory 15, 17, 23, 29, 180, 199 Benét, William Rose 206 and the sensual 132–3 Béranger, Pierre Jean de 1–2 Stevens’ ambivalence concerning 2, 49, 54, Bergmann, Gustav 190 59, 60, 72, 74–5, 80 Bergonzi, Bernard 15, 18 in Stevens criticism 4, 6–29 Bernard, Émile 115–16, 118

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Bernhardt, Sarah 224 Conkling, Grace Hazard 32 Berryman, John 138 Cook, Eleanor 21–2 Bewley, Marius 18 Costello, Bonnie 94 Bezombes, Roger 227 Cotton Club, The 73 Bishop, Elizabeth 49 Crane, Hart 2 Blackmur, R. P. 14, 15–16, 139 Critchley, Simon 27–8 Blake, William 179 Croce, Benedetto 122 Blanchot, Maurice 4, 22, 29, 33, 60, 81, 84, Cummington Press, The 9, 49, 155 88–92, 93, 95, 99, 104, 184, 229 Cunningham, J. V. 14 Bloom, Harold 6, 11–12, 28, 192 Bogan, Louise 143 D’Annunzio, Gabriele 224 Bombois, Camille 219–20 Daedalus 128 Bornstein, George 37–8, 85 Dalin, Ebba 150 Botticelli, Sandro 103 dandyism 7, 228 Bové, Paul 12 Dante, Alighieri 122, 189 Brancusi, Constantin 214 Dasenbrock, Reed Way 201 Braque, Georges 115, 211, 219–20 Davidson, Donald 177, 200–3 Brianchon, Maurice 215 de Chirico, Giorgio 2, 16, 211 Brinnin, John Malcolm 15–16, 35 de Kooning, Willem 95 Brogan, Jacqueline Vaught 9, 112–13, 167, 172 Delacroix, Ferdinand Victor Eugène 106 Brooks, Cleanth 45, 107, 110, 162 Delaunay, Robert 219 Brooks, Van Wyck 9, 143, 144, 162 Delille, Abbé 150 Burgundy. See gastronomy Depression, the 2, 7, 31, 49, 53, 55, 162, 209 Burke, Kenneth 19, 108 Derrida, Jacques 12, 13, 28 Burnshaw, Stanley 4, 56 Deutsch, Babette 14, 17, 18 Byron, George Gordon (Lord) 30 Dewey, John 49, 192 Dickinson, Emily 107, 108 Caesar, Julius 147 Dionysus 128 Cairo 204 Doggett, Frank 13, 23, 81 Cannes 225 Donoghue, Denis 6, 10, 23 Cassagnac, Paul de 146, 149–51 Douglas, Keith 91, 144 Cavaillès, Jean 211, 215, 217, 225 Dowling, Allan 147 Cavell, Stanley 206 Du Pont, Pierre 207 Cézanne, Paul 5, 16, 76, 95, 100, 106, 115–18, Dubuﬀet, Jean 215 119, 121, 125, 127, 209, 218 Duchamp, Marcel 212 Chardin, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon 106 Dufy, Raoul 211, 215, 216, 217 Cheney, Russell 210 Duse, Eleonora 224 Chocorua 127 Chronos 187 Eberhart, Richard 13, 228 Church, Barbara 147, 152, 217, 224 Eeckhout, Bart 17, 27, 28, 97, 129, 130, 132–3, Church, Henry 92–3, 136, 160, 224 138, 213 Cleghorn, Angus 9, 10, 130 Eliot, T. S. 7, 134, 207 Cogniat, Raymond 214 Ellmann, Richard 13 Cohen, Josh 90, 130 Emerson, Ralph Waldo 9, 11, 12, 80, 81, 209 Cold War, the 147 Eulalia, St 141–2 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 9, 13, 21, 41–3, 60, 76, 78–88, 91, 96, 97, 99, 111, 117, 120, Fatima 40, 41 123–4, 127, 133, 178, 181, 192, 194, 208, Feo, José Rodríguez 106, 107, 135, 136, 152, 229 169–70, 171, 173, 191, 212, 213, Biographia Literaria 13, 80, 83–4, 85–7, 123 226, 228 ‘Dejection: An Ode’ 80 Filreis, Alan 9, 10, 15, 22, 122, 123, ‘Frost at Midnight’ 43 126, 173, 214 ‘Kubla Khan’ 41–4, 46 First World War, the 138, 147 commonality 6, 17, 21–2, 205–6 Fleming, Atherton 149 Communism 37 Fletcher, John Gould 31

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Focillon, Henri 4, 22, 24, 29, 60, 76, 81, 83, Goodman, Nelson 201–2, 203 88, 91, 97, 99, 101–7, 113, 117, 124, 125, Gottlieb, Adolph 22 209, 229 Gromaire, Marcel 211, 217 Fontainebleau 111 Fontaine-Gagnard, Domaine 146 Halliday, Mark 8 Ford, Charles Henri 211 Hammer, Victor 224 Foscolo, Ugo 122 Hardy, Thomas 76–7, 79, 115 Frankenburg, Lloyd 14, 16 Harrison, Tony 207 French Revolution, the 80 Hartford 211, 222 Freytag-Loringhofen, Baroness Elsa von 30 Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company, Friar, Kimon 35, 44, 51 the 3, 40, 94 Fribourg 204 Hartley, David 85 Frost, Robert 14, 159, 160 Havana 31, 35, 40–1, 43–4, 45, 48, 50, 54, 69, Frye, Northrop 6, 10 179, 225 Furst, Herbert 110–11, 209 Heaney, Seamus 223 Hecht, Anthony 13 Gagnard, Jean-Noël, Domaine 146 Hegel, G. W. F. 19, 81, 86, 93, 94, 97–101, 103, Gagnard-Delagrange, Domaine 146 111, 117, 134, 170, 172, 184, 229 Gallatin, A. E. 212 Heidegger, Martin 12–13, 88, 90, 136, 167 gastronomy 5, 14, 41, 93, 119, 129, 134, 135, Heringman, Bernard 211, 228 136–65, 210, 212, 215, 224, 229 Hillyer, Robert 206 Bordeaux 162 historicism 7–10, 230 Burgundy Hopkins, Gerard Manley 26 Bâtard-Montrachet 145–6, 152 Howe, Irving 20 Bienvenues-Bâtard-Montrachet 145 humanism 169 Chablis 136, 151, 152 Hume, David 85, 86 Chambolle-Musigny 145, 152 Hutchison, Percy 53 Chassagne-Montrachet 145–6, 151 Chevalier-Montrachet 145, 146, 162 idealist ‘I’ 5, 27, 53, 75, 81, 91, 97, 99, 109, Côte d’Or 147 110–35, 139, 141–3, 158, 165, 167, 180, 229, Côte de Beaune 145 See also philosophy for ‘idealism’ Criots-Bâtard-Montrachet 145 ideas 5, 15, 16, 21, 25, 26, 27, 29, 60, 61, 71, Gevrey-Chambertin 145, 150 72, 76, 85, 86, 87, 92, 95, 99, 105, 129, La Romanée 145 168–9, 214 Le Chambertin 145 Mallarméan poetry of the ‘Idea’ 2, 205 Le Corton 136 imagination 8, 10, 13, 14, 24, 38, 45, 46, 49, 51, Le Montrachet 136, 145–7, 148–9, 150, 158, 53, 55, 57, 59, 60–1, 63, 65, 66, 68, 70, 160, 165 73, 74, 76–7, 78–9, 81, 82, 83, 85, 86–7, Le Musigny 145 88, 91, 93, 94, 95, 96–7, 99, 101, 119, Meursault 136, 140, 151, 152 120–2, 123, 125, 126, 127, 128, 132, 133–5, Puligny-Montrachet 145, 146 137, 139, 140, 141, 150, 158, 160–1, 165, Vosne-Romanée 145 166, 167, 169, 171, 172, 174, 175, 176, 177, café as Stevensian milieu 139, 171–2, 192 178–9, 181, 182, 184, 188–9, 191, 196, 203, Champagne 136 205, 206, 211, 212, 213, 219, 221, 224, Loire Valley 150 225, 228, 229, 230 Mosel 140 Imagism 52 Moselle 135, 140, 147 insurance v, 1, 7, 35, 40, 41, 134, 207 Rhine regions 93, 100, 134, 135 inter-textuality 24 Stevens’ passion for wine 93, 100, 119, 134, isolationism 10, 22, 91, 167 135, 136, 151–2, 212 Ivory Tower rhetoric 44–5, 51, 162 Tuscany 226 Geyzel, Leonard van 150 James, William 11, 80, 81, 191 Giorgione, Barbarelli da Castelfranco 217 Jameson, Fredric 21 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 212 Jarrell, Randall 14, 15, 18–19, 23, 25, 91, 144 Goldfarb, Lisa 29 Jenkins, Lee 7

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Johnson, Jeri 70 role of faith in 2 Joyce, James 70, 192, 194 Stevens’ aversion to ‘professional modernism’ 2, 111, 211, 215, 216, 223, Kandinsky, Wassily 211, 212–13, 223 226 Kant, Immanuel 19, 81, 86, 97, 98, 198 Mondrian, Piet 132, 212–13, 223 Kaper, Bronisław 223 Monroe, Harriet 32 Katahdin 127 Moore, Marianne 7, 36–8, 49, 134, 219 Keats, John 1, 81, 179 Morey, Albert, Domaine 146 Kermode, Frank 6, 20–1, 88, 138, 149, 179 Morey, Bernard, Domaine 146 Kierkegaard, Søren 89 Morey, Jean-Marc, Domaine 146 Kladstrup, Don 148 Morey, Marc et Fils, Domaine 146 Kladstrup, Petie 148 Morey-Coﬃnet, Michel, Domaine 146 Klee, Paul 16, 95, 138, 211, 212–13, 214–15, 223 Morse, Samuel French 14, 17–18, 41 Knopf, Alfred A. 31, 32, 105, 149, 227 Moszynska, Anna 213 Motherwell, Robert 113, 138 La Guardia, David M. 81 Museum of Living Art, the 212 Larkin, Philip 207 Museum of Modern Art, the (MOMA) 2, 210, Latimer, Ronald Lane 30–1, 36, 49, 56, 74, 75, 92 212, 215–16, 219, 226 Le Havre 118 Musset, Alfred de 150 Lee, Peter 88, 204, 205, 228 Leggett, B. J. 10, 12, 13, 19, 21, 23–5, 85, 87, 101, Napoleon (Bonaparte) 145 105, 132 Napoleonic inheritance law 145 Lensing, George 35 nationalism 9, 91, 123, 143 Lentricchia, Frank 135 Naxos 128 Leonard, Robert Z. 73 New Criticism, the 9, 81, 107–9, 129, 134, 144, Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim 97, 210 207 Levin, Jonathan 81 New York City i, 1, 9, 118, 134, 147, 151, 192, Longenbach, James 22, 113, 144, 205, 206 207, 209, 212, 215, 223, 224, 226 Louvre, the 114–16, 117–18, 218 Nietzsche, Friedrich 11, 128, 169, 207–8 Lowell, Robert 227 Norworth, Jack 73

McGreevy, Thomas 150, 213 O’Connor, William Van 14, 16–17, 18 MacLeish, Archibald 9, 91, 143, 144, 162 O’Hara, Frank 1–3 MacLeod, Glen 58, 70, 71, 130 Objectivism 112–13 Mallarmé, Stéphane 1, 2, 33, 52, 83, 84, 88, 90, 113, 130, 133, 138, 166, 173, 204, 205 Pach, Walter 210 Margaux, Château 150 Pack, Robert 22 Martz, Louis M. 14, 16, 23 painting Marxism 152 Abstract Expressionism 10, 22, 58, 95, 130, 212 Matisse, Henri 19, 111, 115, 211, 226 abstraction in 1, 26, 58, 71–2, 74, 95, 111, 116, Mauron, Charles 29, 76, 124, 137–8, 139, 151, 117, 130, 138, 209, 212–18 199, 205 Art Concret 2 Mediterranean, the 131, 132 Art Informel 3 Merleau-Ponty, Maurice 4, 19, 27, 29, 60, 76, Constructivism 213 78, 81, 88, 95–6, 98, 99, 115, 229 Cubism 19, 70, 115, 212, 216 Metastasio, Pietro 224 Dutch Masters, the 210 Miller, Henry 143 Expressionism 210 Miller, J. Hillis 6, 15, 24, 128 Impressionism 4, 210 Milton, John 189 Modernist painting 2, 4 Minos and the Minotaur 127–8 Primitivism 210, 218–22 Miró, Joan 16 regionalism 212 Modernism 3, 4, 5, 26, 80, 88, 108, 134, 143, social realism 22, 144, 212 209, 210, 211–12, 215, 216, 219, 220, 230, Stevens’ art collection 5, 209–12 See also painting Surrealism 70, 110, 138, 210, 212 little magazines 3, 30, 31–2 Tachisme 3

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Paris 96, 150, 152, 219, 224, 226 and abstraction 52–3 Pater, Walter 80 Mallarméan 2, 83, 205, 206 Patke, Rajeev 13 la poésie pure 1–2, 52 Pearce, Roy Harvey 15, 24 Stevens’ modernizing of 4 Perloﬀ, Marjorie 5, 9, 173, 231 Personism 1–3 Rabelais, François 164 Peterson, Margaret 80, 84 Ragner, Bernard 147 Petrarch (Petrarca), Francesco 122 Ransom, John Crowe 105, 107–8, 143, 206 philosophy Raphael (Raphaello), Sanzio de Urbino 101 deconstruction 7 Raymond, Marcel 138 epistemology 23, 25, 27, 72, 75, 117 Reading, Peter 207 idealism 4, 13, 15, 19, 21, 23, 24, 76, 78–82, Rehder, Robert 41, 137 84, 86, 87–8, 94, 97, 99, 100, 101–2, 105, Renard, Jules 207 108, 109, 111, 113, 114, 116, 117–18, 121, Rhys, Ernest 84 123, 124, 126, 127, 129, 131–4, 135, 136, Rich, Daniel Catton 218–19 165, 166, 167, 174, 180, 181, 191–2, 194, Richards, I. A. 13, 21, 82–3, 85, 87 198, 207, 212, 213, 229 Richardson, Joan 12, 149 and abstraction 81–2, 84, 99, 209 Ricoeur, Paul 178 German Idealists 81, 88 Riddel, Joseph N. 15, 20, 24 metaphysics 2, 9, 12, 18, 27, 46, 82, 85, 126, Rolland, Romain 223–4 127, 132, 185, 193, 207, 212, 213, 214–15 Romanticism 7, 36, 37, 38, 78, 80–1, 84, 97, nominalism 44, 45 107, 108, 125, 129, 134, 191, 194, 229 ontology 185 British Romantics 4, 7, 11, 30, 38, 80–1, 84, phenomenology 4, 76, 81, 88, 111, 167, 168, 88, 108, 124, 209, 229 229 Rorty, Richard 12–13, 28, 79, 190–1, 192 and poetry. See poetry Rosenberg, Harold 138 pragmatism 11, 12, 131, 172, 192, 200 Rossini, Gioachino subject and object 81, 86, 96, 97–9, 118 Semiramide and Semiramide 141–2 universalism 37, 44, 45 Rothko, Mark 22 Picabia, Francis 212 Rousseau, Henri 212, 218–22 Picasso, Pablo 4, 19, 70–2, 74, 95, 110–12, 115, Roy, Jean Le 53 117, 130, 209, 211, 219, 226 Rubens, Peter Paul 215 Plato 15, 119–21, 189 Poe, Edgar Allan 52, 53 Sanborn, Pitts 32 poetry Santayana, George 26, 83, 91, 136 and ‘literariness’ 52, 168, 185, 205, 206, 207, Sartre, Jean-Paul 95 224, 228, 229 Schaum, Melita 9, 167, 173 and nomination 6, 173, 174 Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von 88 and oﬃce life 3, 93, 94, 135, 204 Schlegel, Friedrich von 90 and philosophy 1, 3, 17, 20, 27–9, 126 Schulze, Robin G. 37–8 and politics 8, 9, 56, 123, 147, 167, 168 Schuster, Ira 223 and wine. See gastronomy Schwartz, Delmore 14, 15, 19, 41, 77 Poggioli, Renato 63, 68, 69, 71, 73 Second World War, the 7, 91, 130, 143, 205, 212 Poirier, Richard 9, 81 Pearl Harbor 22, 91, 143 Pollock, Jackson 95 Serge, Victor 143 Pontigny, Les Entretiens de 122 Shakespeare, William 19, 67, 144, 156, 160, 162, popular songs 189, 196 ‘Hi lee, hi lo’ 223 Cymbeline 144, 151, 156–60, 162, 163 ‘Shine On Harvest Moon’ 73 Hamlet 157 ‘Stormy Weather’ 73 King Lear 68 Pound, Ezra 7, 134, 206, 207 Macbeth 185, 189, 195–7, 200 Proust, Marcel 29, 76, 101, 104, 106, 116, 134, Shapiro, Karl 91, 144 193, 229 Sharpe, Tony 210 pure poetry 2, 4, 7, 31, 46, 47, 50, 55, 113, 120, Shelley, Percy Bysshe 81, 84, 108, 124, 125, 127, 166, 173, 228 133

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Simons, Hi 53, 92, 130, 166 supreme fiction 5–6, 10, 13, 16, 19, 22, 24, Soby, James Thrall 144, 210–11 54, 57, 81, 82, 89, 91, 93–4, 97, 99, 100, Socialism 147, 224 108, 113, 130, 134, 135, 153, 165, 166, 168, Socrates 21, 120, 121 169–70, 173, 205, 208, 229 Stevens, Elsie (Kachel) 40 supreme fiction as abstract 93, 152 Stevens, Holly 14, 35 theory of poetry 92, 99 Stevens, Wallace the ultimate poem 5, 168 ‘Stevensian’ as derived critical idiom 1, Stevens, Wallace (works of) 11–13, 218, 230 ‘A High-Toned Old Christian Woman’ 6, 56 Stevens, Wallace (figures and themes in) ‘A Postcard from the Volcano’ 50 the actual world 52, 59, 72, 78, 82, 87, 115, ‘A Primitive Like an Orb’ 220–1 167, 173, 176, 192, 209, 230 ‘A Quiet Normal Life’ 205, 225 agreement with reality 122, 123, 126, 173 ‘A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts’ 15 analogy 5, 167 ‘A Study of Two Pears’ 16 anecdote 30–4, 38, 39, 48, 50, 52, 56 ‘A Thought Revolved’ v , 72 ‘Chair of Poetry’ 92, 99, 160, 224 ‘Academic Discourse at Havana’ 31, 35, death of the gods 3, 10, 77, 82, 166 39–51, 54, 69, 179 decreation 24 ‘Adagia’ 82, 87 description 5, 167–8, 173 ‘An Old Man Asleep’ 225 the determining personality 100, 106, 116, ‘An Ordinary Evening in New Haven’ 96, 117, 118, 121, 127 168, 210 fiction 9, 11, 12, 21, 22, 23, 24, 52, 57, 84, ‘Anecdote of Canna’ 179 85, 87, 89, 90–1, 93, 105, 106, 107, 126, ‘Anecdote of the Jar’ 32, 37, 179 169–72, 174, 192 ‘Angel Surrounded by Paysans’ 212, 214, figure[s] of capable imagination 77, 165 215, 221 the first idea 10, 11, 12, 83, 97, 130, 163, 166, ‘Anything Is Beautiful If You Say It Is’ 139 168, 169, 173, 194 ‘Arrival at the Waldorf’ 192 fluent mundo 10, 11, 84, 106, 166, 167, 173, ‘As at a Theatre’ 20 174, 206 ‘As You Leave the Room’ 25, 205 harmonious whole 10, 83, 105 ‘Bantams in Pine-Woods’ 52, 55 ideas of order 34, 35, 48, 49, 228 ‘Botanist on Alp (No. 1)’ 51 major man 6, 10, 13, 21, 22, 97, 164, 166, 168, ‘Bouquet of Roses in Sunlight’ 203, 220 170–2, 173, 185 ‘Canonica’ 112, 122, 129 mastery of life 135, 192, 204–5, 217 ‘Certain Phenomena of Sound’ 5, 119, 129, mastery of reality 165, 192, 207–8 135, 136–43, 147, 148 metaphor 5, 168, 176, 186, 188, 200 ‘Chocorua to Its Neighbor’ 127, 168, 196 new romantic 10, 30, 31, 35–9, 46, Collected Poems 10, 15, 18, 49, 55, 56, 83, 153, 48, 49, 50, 51, 54, 85, 100, 101, 204, 220, 227, 228 165, 222, 228 Collected Poetry and Prose 149 the normal 17, 77, 167, 175, 192, 205–6, 222, ‘Connoisseur of Chaos’ 149 223, 226, 227, 229 ‘Credences of Summer’ 168 poetry as an unofficial view of being 125 ‘Cuisine Bourgeoise’ 224 possible poet 59, 101, 174, 189 ‘Cy est Pourtraicte, Madame Ste Ursule, poverty 51, 56, 136, 151 et les Unze Mille Vierges’ 34 pressure of reality 125 ‘Dance of the Macabre Mice’ 50 reality–imagination complex 10, 84, 121, ‘Depression Before Spring’ 38 122, 125 ‘Description Without Place’ 6, 9, 106, 122, resemblance 5, 167, 168, 174–5, 176–7, 200 166, 172–4, 175, 185, 191, 196, 206, 207, resistance 59, 159, 167, 227 208 rhetoric 60, 87, 155, 174, 180–3, 184, 195, ‘Dinner Bell in the Woods’ 221, 223 196, 228 ‘Discourse in a Cantina at Havana’ 35 the robust poet 121, 123, 127 ‘Domination of Black’ 52 the romantic 35–9 ‘Earthy Anecdote’ 32 sound 114, 121–2, 139–43, 164, 167, 168, 185, ‘Esthétique du Mal’ 143, 144, 159, 164, 167, 198, 228 171

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Stevens, Wallace (cont.) ‘Peter Quince at the Clavier’ 52 ‘Examination of the Hero in a Time of War’ ‘Pieces’ 202 155, 181–3 ‘Prelude to Objects’ 114–19, 218 ‘Explanation’ 52 ‘Reality Is an Activity of the Most August ‘Extracts from Addresses to the Academy of Imagination’ 25, 205 Fine Ideas’ 93, 119, 153, 155, 200 ‘Repetitions of a Young Captain’ 168, 169, ‘Farewell to Florida’ 38, 39, 48, 51, 57 172, 174–84, 189, 193, 217 ‘Farewell Without a Guitar’ 188–9, 198 ‘Sad Strains of a Gay Waltz’ 51 ‘First Warmth’ 205 ‘Sailing after Lunch’ 36 ‘Flyer’s Fall’ 170 ‘Sea Surface Full of Clouds’ 48 ‘Forces, the Will & the Weather’ 171 Selected Poems 18, 204 ‘From the Journal of Crispin’ 32–3 ‘Six Significant Landscapes’ 52 Harmonium 3, 4, 7, 10, 18, 20, 27, 30–5, ‘Snow and Stars’ 50 38–9, 46–54, 56–7, 83, 166, 228 ‘Someone Puts a Pineapple Together’ 177, ‘Holiday in Reality’ 129, 139 178, 179, 183 Ideas of Order 3–4, 30–1, 34–40, 47–54, ‘Song of Fixed Accord’ 38 55–7, 94, 100, 166, 222 ‘Sunday Morning’ 57 ‘Imagination as Value’ 38 ‘Surety and Fidelity Claims’ 135 ‘Invective Against Swans’ 52 ‘The Apostrophe to Vincentine’ 52 ‘Landscape with Boat’ 83, 119, 129–33, 138 The Auroras of Autumn 18–19, 20, 25, 204, ‘Large Red Man Reading’ 19 205 ‘Le Monocle de Mon Oncle’ 32, 57, 144 ‘The Brave Man’ 50 ‘Like Decorations in a Nigger Cemetery’ 54 ‘The Candle a Saint’ 58 ‘Metaphors of a Magnifico’ 52 ‘The Comedian as the Letter C’ 32–4, 38, ‘Montrachet-Le-Jardin’ 6, 45, 93, 107, 119, 39, 47, 56 135, 140, 143–65, 196, 230 ‘The Creations of Sound’ 19 , 96, 122, 168, ‘Mozart, 1935’ 51, 55 179 ‘Not Ideas About the Thing But the Thing ‘The Curtains in the House of the Itself’ 25 Metaphysician’ 53, 206 Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction 9, 14, 16, ‘The Doctor of Geneva’ 32 , 52 49, 108, 185 ‘The Figure of the Youth as Virile Poet’ 102, ‘Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction’ 5–6, 9, 117, 119, 122–9, 173 11, 16, 21, 22, 24, 54, 57, 81, 82, 83, 84, ‘The Green Plant’ 229 85, 87, 89, 97, 108, 113, 114, 115, 130, 140, ‘The Greenest Continent’ 111 152–3, 154, 163, 164, 166, 167, 168–9, 170, ‘The Idea of Order at Key West’ 47 –8 172, 173, 174, 180, 183, 184, 185, 194, 205, ‘The Irrational Element in Poetry’ 59 –60, 208, 229 87 ‘It Must Be Abstract’ 16, 61, 85, 87, 91, ‘The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad’ 52 108, 172 The Man with the Blue Guitar 4, 19, 20, 49, ‘It Must Be Human’ as proposed section 54, 55, 56, 58, 60, 94, 96, 110, 119, 165 6, 172 ‘The Man with the Blue Guitar’ 56 –8, ‘It Must Give Pleasure’ 151, 221 59, 60, 82, 86, 87, 90, 97, 98, 99, 110, ‘Of Heaven Considered as a Tomb’ 53 111, 115, 118, 119, 126, 131, 134, 154, 164, ‘Of Mere Being’ 20, 25, 205 209, 228, 231 ‘Of Modern Poetry’ 37 ‘The Motive for Metaphor’ 203 ‘Of the Surface of Things’ 52 The Necessary Angel 121, 125, 129, 174, 177, Opus Posthumous 25 204, 206 Owl’s Clover 55, 58 ‘The News and the Weather’ 139 ‘Owl’s Clover’ 55–9, 66, 69, 209 ‘The Noble Rider and the Sound of Words’ ‘Page from a Tale’ 220 59, 82, 114, 119–22, 124, 126, 127, 183–4, ‘Paisant Chronicle’ 6, 166, 170–2, 185, 192 189 Parts of a World 17, 25, 54, 58, 82, 83, 84, 93, ‘The Novel’ 107 110, 112, 129, 143, 149, 154, 155, 164, 166, ‘The Old Woman and the Statue’ 56 167, 170, 172, 229 ‘The Ordinary Women’ 47 ‘Pecksniffiana’ 32 ‘The Owl in the Sarcophagus’ 205

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‘The Planet on the Table’ 25 Vendler, Helen 6, 8, 10 ‘The Poems of Our Climate’ 112 –14, 115, 130 Venturi, Lionello 117 ‘The Public Square’ 5 Vidal, Anatole 150 ‘The Pure Good of Theory’6 , 168, 170, 174, Vidal, Paule 88, 150, 214, 216, 220 177, 178, 181, 184, 185–203, 228 Villena, Rubén Martínez 48 ‘The Relations Between Poetry and Painting’ Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène Emmanuel 83 2, 71, 138, 213 Viollot, ‘Mesdemoiselles’ 146 ‘The River of Rivers in Connecticut’ 24, 229 Virgil 171 The Rock 18–19, 24–5, 205 Vivin, Louis 218 ‘The Sail of Ulysses’ 25 Vogüé, Comte de 152 ‘The Snow Man’ 12, 52, 56, 132 Vogüé, Comte de, Domaine 152 ‘The Sun This March’ 50 Vogüé, Nelly de 152 ‘Theory’ 52 , 56 Voltaire [François-Marie Arouet] 147–8, 151 ‘Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird’ Candide 147–8, 162 52, 56 ‘This Solitude of Cataracts’ 19 Wadsworth Athenaeum, the 212 ‘Three Academic Pieces’ 103, 174–82, 200, Wagner, C. Ronald 228 229 Wahl, Jean 122, 206 ‘To the One of Fictive Music’ 52, 55 Walker, David 133 Transport to Summer 9, 15, 168, 204, 229 Warren, Robert Penn 107 ‘Two Figures in Dense Violet Night’ 52 Waters, Ethel 73 ‘Valley Candle’ 32 Weinstock, Herbert 105 Sweeney, James Johnson 211 West, Eugene 223 Symbolism 2, 7, 19, 52, 53, 55, 83, 84, 88, 206 Whicher, George Frisbee 107 Symons, Julian 72 Whiting, Anthony 80 Whitman, Walt 2, 209 Tal-Coat, Pierre 211, 212, 214–15, 216, 217, 221 Whorf, Benjamin Lee 94 Tanguy, Yves 210 Williams, William Carlos 2, 7, 15, 36, 51, 74, Tate, Allen 9, 107–8, 143, 144, 206, 207 112, 134, 143, 162–3 Taylor, Wilson E. 225 Wilson, T. C. 37 Tchelitchew, Pavel 211 Winters, Yvor 110 Theosophy 212 Wittgenstein, Ludwig 27 Theseus 128 Woolf, Virginia 134, 158 Thomas, Dylan 206 Wordsworth, William 60, 78–82, 84–5, 87, 97, Thomas, R. S. 18 , 138 99, 111, 114, 117, 181, 192, 229 Tomlinson, Charles 26–7 The Prelude 78–80, 87, 181, 186 transcendence 3, 26, 36, 225 Trilling, Lionel 143 Yeats, William Butler 7, 8, 14, 80, 148, 220

Uhde, Wilhelm 218 Zervos, Christian 71, 74, 110, 111 Ziarek, Krzysztof 28 Valéry, Paul 21, 28–9, 59, 87, 90, 94, 134, 135, 138 Ziegfeld, Florenz 73 Van Gogh, Vincent 207–8, 209 Zigrosser, Carl 53 Vechten, Carl Van 32