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.
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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.
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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, 19101950 (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 Transcendence (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).
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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 TwentiethCentury 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).
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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 (Cambridge, Mass., 1969).
Vendler (Helen), Wallace Stevens; Words Chosen Out of Desire (Knoxville,
Tenn., 1984).
Vendler (Helen), 'Wallace Stevens: Hypotheses and Contradictions', Proceedings 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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