HE 1930S mark the major transition in Wallace St etic career, from the exuberant variety of
Harmonium (1923) to the theoretical coherence and stylistic virtuosity of his later years. The …

Al 7 Stevenson's" Providence and the Guitar" 1 and that it prompted in him a deeply critical
response regarding the nature and worth of literature. We also have evidence that Stevens …

No twentieth-century poet attended more to daily routine than did Wallace Stevens.'From a
1927 letter that outlines his schedule (Collected 941) to a 1955 message in which he …

WALLACE not accept as a Hugh poet STEVENS but Kenner as an FIRST's avant-garde
assessment stepped that playwright. into Stevens the modernist Yet is the we quintes-tend …

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 …

D ISCUSSION OF Wallace Stevens's final volume of poems, The Rock (I954), has been
unnecessarily solemn and doctrinaire. On the one hand, much has been made of the poet's …

The work of Wallace Stevens has been read most widely as poetry concerned with poetry,
and not with the world in which it was created; deemed utterly singular, it seems to resist …

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 poetry TYPICAL is to internalize TACTIC an of exterior much of and Stevens' then to
major, let the and mind especially play over late, the poetry is to internalize an exterior and …

Stevens and Ideas 24I read about-Plato, Kierkegaard, Hobbes, Locke, Vico, Coleridge, IA
Richards, Pascal, Cassirer, AJ Ayer. He read Hegel (L, p. 390); and as the three references …