WALLACE STEVENS

Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems, (London, 2nd impression, 1959). Wallace Stevens, Collected Poetry and Prose, sel. and ed. Frank Kermode and Joan Richardson (Library of America; New York, 1997). Wallace Stevens, Harmonium (London, 1975) [exact reprint of the New York 1923 edition]; see also Harmonium, ed. Frank Kermode (Penguin Books, New York, 1999), and Buttel (Robert), Wallace Stevens; The Making of 'Harmonium' (Princeton, 1967). Wallace Stevens, The Necessary Angel; Essays on Reality and the Imagination (New York, 1951). Wallace Stevens, Opus Posthumous, ed. Milton J. Bates (London, rev. and enl. ed., 1990). Wallace Stevens, The Letters, ed. Holly Stevens (London, 1967). Sur Plusieurs Beaux Sujets: Wallace Stevens' Commonplace Book, ed. Milton J. Bates (Stanford and San Marino, 1989).

Stevens (Holly), Souvenirs and Prophecies; The Young Wallace Stevens (New York, 19077). Brazeau (P.), Parts of a World: Wallace Stevens Remembered (New York, 1983). Richardson (Joan), Wallace Stevens, the Early Years, 1879-1923 (New York, c.1986) Richardson (Joan), Wallace Stevens, the Later Years, 1923-1955 (New York, 1988) Sharpe (Tony), Wallace Stevens; A Literary Life (Basingstoke, 2000).

Edelstein (J.M.), Wallace Stevens: A Descriptive Bibliography (Pitsburgh, 1973). Serio (John N.), Wallace Stevens: An Annotated Secondary Bibliography (Pittsburg, 1994). Bates (Milton J.), 'Stevens' Books at the Huntington: An Annotated Checklist', Wallace Stevens Journal, 2 (1978), 45-61; 3 (1979), 70; see also 20 (1996), 76-103. Edelstein (J.M.), 'The Poet as Reader: Wallace Stevens and His Books', The Book Collector, 23 (1974), 53-68. Martz (Louis L.), 'Manuscripts of Wallace Stevens', The Yale University Library Gazette, 34 (1979), 65. 2

Arensberg (Mary), 'Introduction: The American Sublime', in The American Sublime, ed. M. Arensberg (Albany, N.Y., 1986); see also Wilson (Rob), American Sublime; The Genealogy of a Poetic Genre (Madison, Wis., 1991). Altieri (Charles), 'Motives in Metaphor: John Ashbery and the Modernist Long Poem', Genre, 11 (1978). Altieri (Charles), 'Why Stevens Must Be Abstract or What Poets Can Learn from Painting', in Wallace Stevens; the Poetics of Modernism, ed. A. Guelpi (Cambridge, 1985). Altieri (Charles), Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry; The Contemporaneity of Modernism (Cambridge, 1989). Altieri (Charles), 'The Pound/Stevens Era', Wallace Stevens Journal, 26 (2002), 228-50. Beehler (Michael T.), 'Inversion/Subversion: Strategy in Stevens' 'The Auroras of Autum', Genre 11 (1978). Berger (Charles), Forms of Farewell; The Late Poetry of Wallace Stevens (Madison, Wis., 1985). Bevis (William W.), Mind of Winter; Wallace Stevens, Meditation, and Literature (Pittsburg, 1988). Blackmur (R.P.), Language as Gesture; Essays in Poetry (London, c.1954). Bloom (H.), 'Notes Towards a Supreme Fiction: A Commentary', in M. Borroff (ed.), Wallace Stevens: A Collection of Critical Essays (Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1963), pp. 76-95. Bloom (H.), Wallace Stevens; The Poems of our Climate (Ithaca and London, 1977). Brun (Gerald L.) 'Stevens without Epistemology', in Wallace Stevens: The Poetics of Modernism, ed. Albert Gelpi (Cambridge, 1985). Caldwell (Price) '"Sunday Morning": Stevens' Makeshift Romantic Lyric', Southern Review 15 (1979), 933-52. Carroll (Joseph), Wallace Stevens's Supreme Fiction; A New Romanticism (Baton Rouge, La, 1987). Cleghorn (Angus), 'Questioning the Composition of Romance in "The Idea of Order at Key West"', Wallace Steverns Journal, 22 (1998), 23-38. Cook (Eleanor), Poetry, Word-Play, and Word-War in Wallace Stevens (Princeton, N.J., 1988). Davidson (Michael), 'Wallace Stevens and Contemporary Poetics', in Wallace Stevens; the Poetics of Modernism, ed. A. Gelpi (Cambridge, 1985). DeMaria (Robert, Jr), 'The Thinker as Reader: The Figure of the Reader in the Writing of Wallace Stevens', Genre 12 (1979). Dickie (Margaret) 'Wallace Stevens and the Inverted Dramatic Monologue', Wallace Stevens Journal, 16 (1992), 22-36. 3 Doggett (Frank), Wallace Stevens; The Making of the Poem (Baltimore and London, 1980). Doggett (Frank) and Buttel (Robert) (eds), Wallace Stevens; A Celebration (Princeton, 1980). Donoghue (Denis) 'Nuances of a Theme by Wallace Stevens', in The Act of the Mind: Essays on the Poetry of Wallace Stevens, ed. J. Hillis Miller and Roy Harvey Pearce (Baltimore, 1965). Feshbach (Sidney), 'A Pretext for Wallace Stevens' "Sunday Morning"', Journal of Modern Lit., 23 (1999), 59-78. Filreis (Alan), Wallace Stevens and the Actual World (Princeton, N.J., 1991). Filreis (Alan), Modernism from Right to Left: Wallace Stevens, the Thirties and Literary Radicalism (Cambridge, 1994). Frye (Northrop), 'The Realistic Oriole; A Study of Wallace Stevens', in his Fables of Identity; Studies in Poetic Mythology (New York, 1963), pp. 238-55. Frye (Northrop), 'Wallace Stevens and the Variation Form', in his Spiritus Mundi: Essays on Literature, Myth and Society (Bloomington, Ind., 1976). Gelpi (Albert) (ed.), Wallace Stevens; The Poetics of Modernism (Cambridge, 1985). Gelpi (Albert), A Coherent Splendor; The American Poetic Renaissance, 1910- 1950 (Cambridge, 1987), Chap. 2. Heller (Michael), 'Oppen and Stevens: Reflections on the Lyrical and the Philosophical', Sagetrieb, 12 (1993), 13-22. Hertz (David Michael), Angels of Reality; Emersonian Unfoldings in Wright, Stevens and Ives (Carbondale, Ill., 1993). Jarrell (Randall), 'Reflections on Wallace Stevens', Partisan Review, 18 (1951), 335-44. Kenner (Hugh), A Homemade World; The American Modernist Writers (New York, 1975). Kermode (Frank), Wallace Stevens (reprinted, with a new preface by the author, New York, 1979); see also 'Afterthoughts on Wallace Stevens' (1966-7) reprinted in his Modern Essays (2nd ed., London, 1990). Kermode (Frank), '"Notes Towards a Supreme Fiction": A Commentary', Annali dell'Instituto Universitario Orientale: Sezione Germanica, 4 (Naples, 1961), 173-201. Lawler (Justus George), Celestial Pantomime; Poetic Structures of Tran- scendence (New Haven and London, 1979). Leggett (B.J.), Wallace Stevens and Poetic Theory (Chapel Hill, 1987). Lensing (George), Wallace Stevens: A Poet's Growth (London, 1986). Lentricchia (Frank), Modernist Quartet (Cambridge 1994). 4 Levenson (Michael H.) A Genealogy of Modernism; A Study of English Literary Doctrine 1908-1922 (Cambridge, 1984). Litz (A. Walton), 'Williams and Stevens: the Quest for a Native American Modernism', in R.P. Draper (ed.), The Literature of Region and Nation (Basingstoke, 1989). Longenbach (James), Wallace Stevens: The Plain Sense of Things (Oxford, 1991).

Lowell (Robert), 'Wallace Stevens' (1947), in his Collected Prose, ed. Robert Giroux (London, 1987), pp. 12-16. MacLeod (Glen G.), Wallace Stevens and Company; The Harmonium Years, 1913-1923 (Epping, c.1983). MacLeod (Glen G.), Wallace Stevens and Modern Art; From the Armory Show to Abstract Expressionism (New Haven, 1993). Magnus (Laury), '"And Things Beyond Resemblance": On Stevens' Embedded Similes', Wallace Stevens Journal, 11 (1987), 12-20. Magnus (Laury), The Track of the Repetend; Syntactic and Lexical Repetition in Modern Poetry (New York, 1989). Martz (Louis) 'Wallace Stevens: The World as Meditation', Yale Review, 47 (1958), 517-36. Marx (Leo), The Machine in the Garden (Oxford, 1964). Mazur (Krystyna), Poetry and Repetition; Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens, John Ashbery (New York, 2005). Miller (J. Hillis), 'Stevens' Rock and Criticism as Cure', Georgia Review, 30 (1976), 5-31, 330-48. Miller (J. Hillis), 'Wallace Stevens' Poetry of Being' (revised from appearance in The Act of the Mind, see below), and 'When is a Primitive like an Orb' (1986), in his Tropes, Parables, Performatives; Essays on Twentieth- Century Literature (New York, 1990), pp. 33-49, 227-44. Morris (Tim), Wallace Stevens; Poetry amnd Criticism (Cambridge, 2006) [with very full up-to-date bibliography]. Oliphant (Dave) and Zigal (Thomas) (eds), WCW & Others; Essays on William Carlos Williams and his Association with Ezra Pound, Hilda Doolittle, Marcel Duchamp, Marianne Moore, Emanuel Romano, Wallace Stevens and Louis Zukofsky (Austin, Tex., c.1985). Pearce (Roy Harvey) and Miller (J. Hillis) (eds), The Act of the Mind; Essays on the Poetry of Wallace Stevens (Baltimore, Md., 1965). Perloff (Marjorie), 'Pound/Stevens: Whose Era?', in her The Dance of the Intellect; Studies in the Pound Tradition (Cambridge, 1985). Perloff (Marjorie), 'Revolving in Crystal: The Supreme Fiction and the Impasse of Modernist Lyric', in Wallace Stevens; The Poetics of Modernism, ed. Albert Gelpi (Cambridge, 1985). Rehder (Robert M.), The Poetry of Wallace Stevens (Basingstoke, 1988). 5 Rehder (Robert), Stevens, Williams, Crane, and the Motive for Metaphor (Basingstoke, 2004). Riddel (Joseph N.), The Clairvoyant Eye; The Poetry and Poetics of Wallace Stevens (Baton Rouge, 1965). Riddel (Joseph), 'Interpreting Stevens: An Essay on Poetry and Thinking', Boundary 2, 1 (1972), 79-97. Riddel (Joseph), 'The Climate of Our Poem', Wallace Stevens Journal, 7 (1983), 59-75. Santayana (George), Interpretations of Poetry and Religion (New York, 1900, reprinted, Cambridge, Mass., 1990). Schwarz (Daniel Roger), Narrative and Representation in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens; A Tune Beyond Us, Yet Ourselves (Basingstoke, 1993). Simons (Hi), 'The Comedian as the Letter C: Its Sense and Significance', Southern Review, V (1940), 453-68. Springer (Mary Doyle), 'Closure in a Half Light: Wallace Stevens' Endings', Wallace Stevens Journal, 16 (1992), 161-181. Strom (Martha), 'Wallace Stevens's Revisions of Crispin's Journal: A Reaction Against the Local', American Literature, 54 (1982), 258-76. Vendler (Helen), On Extended Wings; Wallace Stevens' Longer Poems (Cam- bridge, Mass., 1969). Vendler (Helen), Wallace Stevens; Words Chosen Out of Desire (Knoxville, Tenn., 1984). Vendler (Helen), 'Wallace Stevens: Hypotheses and Contradictions', Pro- ceedings of the British Academy, CXI (2000), 225-44. Walker (David), The Transparent Lyric; Reading and Meaning in the Poetry of Stevens and Williams (Princeton, c.1984). Whiting (Anthony), The Never-Resting Mind; Wallace Stevens' Romantic Irony (Ann Arbor, Mich, c.1996). Winters (Yvor), 'Wallace Stevens, or the Hedonist's Progress', in The Anatomy of Nonsense (Norfolk, Conn., 1943), reprinted with a postscript in Yvor Winters on Modern Poets (New York, 1959).

J.H. Prynne, April 2006

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