... 10.00. Let itie say immediately that no one in 197.5 would seriously delxite the question ot‘ whether or riot there are useful things to he said about Walt Whitman and Wallace Stevens or, rather, the nineteenth-century poetic tradi- tion which Stevens inlieri ted. It is now iiiore than...

...Frank Lentricchia Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 Adalaide Kirby Morris. Wallace Stevens: Imagination and Faith . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974. xi + 205 pp. $9.50. WALLACE STEVENS: THE CRITIC’S REDEMPTION...

...Dwight Eddins Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 WALLACE STEVENS AMERICA THE PRIMORDIAL By DWIGHTEDDINS In his essay on Wallace Stevens, William York Tindall perceptively asserts: “No poet since...

... mit neuen Augen zu be• trachten. HEINZ GRABER University of lVashington On Extended lVings: Wallace Stevens' Longer Poems. By HELEN HENNESSY VENDLER. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1969. x + 334 pp. $7.50. The supreme...

...Joseph H. Riddel Merle E. Brown. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1970. 219 pp. $8.50 Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 JOSEPH N. KIDDEL 213 Wallace Stevens: The Poem as Act. By MERLEE. BROWN.Detroit: Wayne...

...”) Life is not free from its forms. (“Adagia”) THE GESTALT CONFIGURATIONS OF WALLACE STEVENS By STEVENFOSTER More than any other experimental discipline, Gestalt...

...George McFadden Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 POET, NATURE, AND SOCIETY IN WALLACE STEVENS By GEORGEMCFADDEN Wallace Stevens disliked miscellany. He waited until he had found his authentic voice before publishing his first volume...

....” ROGERL. BROOKS University of Colorado Wallace Stevens: An Approach to His Poctry and Thought. By ROBERTPACK. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 1958. Pp. xvi + 203. $4.50. In spite of its deceptively explicit air, the poetry of Wallace Stevens depends for much of its...

...Peter Miller Abstract Wallace Stevens titled his first poetry collection, Harmonium (1923), after a nineteenth-century musical instrument: the American reed organ. The title frames the book as a period piece, an emblem of a bygone age, but also as a musical instrument, a tool for producing new...

...” that lie behind or enter into the poems of Wallace Stevens. That he is a “poet of ideas” has long been recognized, though any particular critic’s intention in-using such a phrase may be far from clear. And there have been many efforts to restate those ideas, enough to last us for some time...

... the question ot‘ whether or riot there are useful things to he said about Walt Whitman and Wallace Stevens or, rather, the nineteenth-century poetic tradi- tion which Stevens inlieri ted. It is now iiiore than fifteen years since Samuel French Morse addressed -1’he English Institute antl suggested...

... habit of presentation in the works of seven poets: Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Hart Crane, T. S. Eliot, Randall Jarrell, and W. B. Yeats. Her best essays are those which treat poets in whom the device of metamorphosis is an informing principle of structure...

... and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976. 238 pp. $10.00. RONALDBUSH. The Genesis of Ezra Pound’s “Cantos.” Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976. xv 4- 527 pp. $16.50. HAROLDBLOOM. Wallace Stevens: The Poems of Our Climate. I thaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1977. viii 4...

... to indicate an emotional complex. ‘In this book she studies this poetic habit of presentation in the works of seven poets: Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Hart Crane, T. S. Eliot, Randall Jarrell, and W. B. Yeats. Her best essays are those which treat poets in whom the device...

... Stevens: An Approach to His Poctry and Thought. By ROBERTPACK. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 1958. Pp. xvi + 203. $4.50. In spite of its deceptively explicit air, the poetry of Wallace Stevens depends for much of its effect upon relatively inaccessible reserves of meaning...

... Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 BOOKS RECEIVED AMERICAN Borroff, Marie (editor). Wallace Stevens : A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs : Prentice-Hall, Inc., Twentieth Century Views, 1963...

... Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 BOOKS RECEIVED AMERICAN Heckett, Lucy. Wallace Stevens. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974. 222 pp. $10.95. Blessing, Richard Allen. Theodore Roethke’s...

..., 1961. Pp. xv + 442. $7.50. This is an important work, a sustained, intensive search for the intrinsic nature of American poetry. Within it are sharp perceptions, enlightening in- terpretations, flashes of original thought. The chapter on Wallace Stevens (Chap. 9) is surely one...

... History. New York: Free Press; London: Collier-Macmillan, 1968. ix + 291 pp. $7.95. Burney, William. Wallace Stevens. New York: Twayne, TUSAS 127, 1968. 190 pp. $3.95. Field, Leslie A. (editor). Thomas Wolfe: Three Decades of Criticism. New York: New York University Press; London...

... the principle of metamorphic change and a degree of paradox and ambiguity which no effort of mind can compel into 352 “BAKTLEHY *I‘HE SCKIVENEK” focus; we must settle for indefiniteness as the basic condition of the sym- bolist writing, for Wallace Stevens’ “ever-never...