Wallace Stevens

A Celebration

Robert Buttel, Frank Doggett

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9780691616254, 9780691064147
• eBook ISBN: 9781400853816
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Biographies
• Index: Literature

Honoring the centennial of Stevens' birth, this volume presents original essays by many of Stevens' best-known critics. Also included are 128 previously unpublished lines that appear in the poet's From the Journal of Crispin" (an early version of "The Comedian as the Letter C"); three endings composed for "A Collect of Philosophy"; the complete Adagia entries from Stevens' notebooks; and thirteen letters to business associate Wilson E. Taylor.

Originally published in 1980.

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Preface
• Chronology
• Abbreviations
• Louis L. Martz, "From the Journal of Crispin": An Early Version of "The Comedian as the Letter C"
• Wallace Stevens, from the Journal of Crispin
• Peter A. Brazeau, "A Collect of Philosophy": The Difficulty of Finding What Would Suffice
• Wallace Stevens, Three Manuscript Endings for "A Collect of Philosophy"
• A. Walton Litz, Particles of Order: The Unpublished Adagia
• Wallace Stevens, a Selection of Stevens' Letters to Wilson E. Taylor
• Wilson E. Taylor, Of A Remembered Time
• Holly Stevens, Holidays in Reality
• Peter A. Brazeau, a Trip in a Balloon: A Sketch of Stevens' Later Years in New York
• George S. Lensing, Wallace Stevens In England
• Richard Ellmann, How Wallace Stevens Saw Himself
• Helen Vendler, Stevens and Keats' "To Autumn"
• Isabel G. Maccaffrey, The Ways of Truth in "Le Monocle De Mon Oncle"
• Irvin Ehrenpreis, Strange Relation: Stevens' Nonsense
• John Hollander, The Sound of the Music of Music and Sound
• Frank Kermode, Dwelling Poetically in Connecticut
• J. Hillis Miller, Theoretical and Atheoretical in Stevens
• Roy Harvey Pearce, Toward Decreation: Stevens and The "Theory of Poetry"
• Joseph N. Riddel, Metaphoric Staging: Stevens' Beginning Again of the "End of the Book"
• Notes
• Notes on Contributors