WALLACE STEVENS'twofold com-mitment to life is in some way reconciled, we feel, in his
preoccupation with the theory of poetry. His simultaneous dedication to poetry-the life of the …

The plea for imagination is renewed, 2 but with an urgency provoked by a cold, angry dawn
of a new decade. There is a change of tone, certainly, in Stevens' poetry of the 1930's, but …

In the 1942 essay" The Noble Rider and the Sound of Words/'Ste vens pauses momentarily
among a flurry of references to Picasso, Croce, Kierkegaard, and Schlegel to speculate on …

I As with the elephant encountered by four blind men in the fable, the impression given by
the verbal exterior of the poetry of Wallace Stevens depends on where it is touched. Even if …

A PERSISTENT FEATURE OF WALLACE STEVENS'S LATER POETRY IS ITS suggestion of
a potential realm of order as yet only dimly apprehended. At times this elusive order seems …

WALLACE has tion, been and repeatedly STEVENS'reality. The mined" The lecture Noble
for is, his Rider according views and of the poetry, to Milton Sound the of Bates, imagina …

WALLACE middle years STEVENS'as a poet RESPONSE became, at to its the best, climate
a technique that surrounded for subverting his middle years as a poet became, at its best, a …

The Humanism of Wallace Stevens vironments. Stevens writes from a unique, whole vision
of life, that is revealed in Parts of a World. We left him, as the fabulists say, in Owl's Clover …

HAROLD vanced that many as BLOOM interpretation of Wallace SHREWDLY Stevens' than
our observed poems criticism are nearly as" themselves yet three has gotten decades more …

IN propriates plains A RECENT how,[the in ISSUE" The woman's] Idea OF The
of'voice.'Order Wallace at Stevens Key The West," Journal supposedly Wallace, Brooke …