Critical essays on Wallace Stevens / [edited by] Steven Gould Axelrod, Helen Deese.

Contributor Axelrod, Steven Gould, 1944-

Imprint:Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall, c1988.

Descriptionviii, 265 p. ; 25 cm.

Note:EVIEWS: Comment: a cavalier of beauty [Harmonium] / Harriet Monroe -- Among the new books: five American poets [Harmonium] / Louis Untermeyer -- [Review of Harmonium] / Matthew Josephson -- Society and solitude in poetry [Ideas of Order] / F. O. Matthiessen -- [Review of Ideas of Order] / Marianne Moore -- Turmoil in the middle ground [Ideas of Order] / Stanley Burnshaw -- New Verse [The Man with the Blue Guitar] / Delmore Schwartz -- An abstraction blooded [Notes toward a Supreme Fiction] / R. P. Blackmur -- Recent poetry [Transport to Summer] / Louis L. Martz -- [Review of The Auroras of Autumn] / William Van O'Connor -- The gaiety of language [The Necessity of Angel and Opus Posthumous] / Frank Kermode -- Very graceful are the uses of culture [Collected Poems] / Randall Jarrell -- Another way of looking at the blackbird [Opus Posthumous] / Irving Howe -- [Review of The Necessary Angel and Opus Posthumous] / Henry Reed.

Note:ESSAYS: The realistic oriole: a study of Wallace Stevens / Northrop Frye -- Wallace Stevens / J. Hillis Miller -- Reduction to the first idea / Harold Bloom -- Versions of existentialism / Frank Lentricchia -- Of parents, children, and rabbits: Wallace Stevens and the question of the book / Joseph G. Kronick -- Wallace Stevens' revisions of Crispin's journal: a reaction against the "local" / Martha Strom -- The climate of our poems / Joseph N. Riddel -- Riddles, charms, and fictions in Wallace Stevens / Eleanor Cook -- Wallace Stevens / Frederic Jameson -- "That which is always beginning": Stevens' poetry of affirmation / Steven Shaviro -- "A completely new set of objects": the spirit of place in Wallace Stevens and Charles Ives / Lawrence Kramer -- An American poet's idea of language / Claudia Yukman -- "The theory of poetry is the theory of life": Bergson and the later Stevens / Paul Douglass.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographies and index.

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