Wallace Stevens

Charles Doyle

Part 1 Early Reviews; Chapter 1 Shaemas O Sheel, from ‘Chicago Poets and Poetry’, Minaret; Chapter 2 Anonymous, from the New York Times; Chapter 3 Ralph Block, from ‘The Wisconsin Players Now at the Neighborhood Playhouse’, New York Tribune; Chapter 4 Conrad Aiken, on Stevens’ ‘delicate originality’ of mind, from Scepticisms: Notes on Contemporary Poetry; Chapter 5 Carl Sandburg, from a letter to Louis Untermeyer about The New Era in American Poetry; Chapter 6 Conrad Aiken, on Stevens and the sociological-nationalistic view of poetry, New Republic; Chapter 7 Harriet Monroe, from ‘Mr. Yeats and the Poetic Drama’, Poetry; Chapter 8 Yvor Winters, from’A Cool Master’, Poetry; Part 2 Harmonium; Chapter 9 Mark Van Doren, ‘Poets and Wits’, Nation; Chapter 10 Matthew Josephson, on ‘an extraordinary personality’, Broom; Chapter 11 Marjorie Allen Seiffert, from ‘The Intellectual Tropics’, Poetry; Chapter 12 John Gould Fletcher, from ‘The Revival of Estheticism’, Freeman; Chapter 13 Marianne Moore, ‘Well Moused, Lion’, Dial; Chapter 14 Allen Tate, on Wallace Stevens as ‘radical’, Nashville Tennessean; Chapter 15 Harriet Monroe, on ‘a flavorously original poetic personality’, Poetry; Chapter 16 Edmund Wilson, on Stevens’ lack of emotion, New Republic; Chapter 17 Llewelyn Powys, ‘The Thirteenth Way’, Dial; Chapter 18 Louis Untermeyer, on ‘a reticence which results in determined obscurity’, Yale Review; Chapter 19 Paul Rosenfeld, on ‘Another Pierrot’, from Men Seen — Twenty-Four Modern Authors; Chapter 20 Gorham B. Munson, ‘The Dandyism of Wallace Stevens’, Dial; Chapter 21 Allen Tate, on Stevens’ underlying Puritanism, from ‘American Poetry Since 1920’, Bookman; Chapter 22 Alfred Kreymborg, on Stevens as one of the ‘Originals and Eccentrics’, from Our Singing Strength; Part 3 Harmonium; Chapter 23 Conrad Aiken, on Stevens as humorist, from a letter to R.P. Blackmur; Chapter 24 Percy Hutchison, ‘Pure Poetry and Mr. Wallace Stevens’, New York Times Book Review; Chapter 25 Eda Lou