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Wallace Stevens

Bibliography

 

Primary Sources:

Verse:

    • Harmonium. New York, 1923; New York, 1931 (with additional poems).

 

    • Ideas of Order. New York: AlcestisPress 1935;NewYork: Knopf, 1936

 

    • Owl's Clover. New York, 1936.

 

    • The Man with the Blue Guitar and 0therPoems. NewYork,1937 (with the revised version of Owl's Clover).

 

    • Parts of a World. New York, 1942.

 

    • Notes toward a Supreme Fiction. Cummington, Mass., 1942.

 

    • Esth?tique du Mal, Cummington, Mass., 1944.

 

    • Transport to Summer, New York, 1947 (Includes Notes toward a Supreme Fiction and Esth?tique du Mal)

 

    • A Primitive like an Orb, New York, 1948.

 

    • The Auroras of Autumn, New York, 195o. (Includes A Primitive like an Orb)

 

    • Selected Poems, London, 1953.

 

    • Collected Poems, New York, 1954. (Includes a new section, The Rock) Collected Poems, London, 1955.

 

    • The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play, ed. Holly Stevens, New York: Vintage, 1972

 

Poems, Plays, Prose:

    • Opus Posthumous, ed. Milton J. Bates, New York: Knopf, 1989; London: Faber, 1990. (A revised, enlarged and corrected edition).

 

Essays:

    • The Necessary Angel. Essays on Reality and Imagination. New York: Vintage, 1951; London: Faber, 1960.

 

Correspondence:

    • Letters of Wallace Stevens. Eds. Holly Stevens and Richard Howard. Berkeley: U of California P, 1996.

 

Miscellanea:

    • Souvenirs and Prophecies: The Young Wallace Stevens, ed. Holly Stevens, New York, 1977 (early journals).

 

Biographical Studies:

    • Brazeau, Peter. Parts of a World: Wallace Stevens Remembered. New York: Random House, 1983.

 

    • Morse, Samuel F. Wallace Stevens: Poetry as Life. New York: Pegasus, 1970.

 

    • Richardson, Joan. Wallace Stevens: The Early Years, 1879-1923. New York: Morrow Beech Tree, 1986.

 

    • Stevens, Holly Bright. Souvenirs and Prophecies: The Young Wallace Stevens. New York: Knopf, 1977.

 

Bibliographical Works:

    • Serio, John N., ed. Wallace Stevens: An Annotated Secondary Bibliography. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 1994.

 

    • Walsh, Thomas F. Concordance to the Poetry of Wallace Stevens. University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1963.

 

Criticism:

    • Arensberg, Mary, ed. The American Sublime. Albany: State U of New York P, 1986.

 

    • Axelrod, Steven Gould, and Helen Deese, eds. Critical Essays on Wallace Stevens. Boston, 1988.

 

    • Baird, James. The Dome and the Rock: Structure in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1968.

 

    • Bates, Milton J. Wallace Stevens: A Mythology of Self. Berkeley: U of California P, 1986.

 

    • Beehler, Michael. T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, and the Discourses of Difference. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1987.

 

    • Benamou, Michel. Wallace Stevens and the Symbolist Imagination. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1972.

 

    • Benziger, James. Images of Eternity: Studies in the Poetry of Religious Vision, from Wordsworth to T. S. Eliot. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1962.

 

    • Bevis, William W. Mind of Winter: Wallace Stevens, Meditation, and Literature. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 1988.

 

    • Blessing, Richard A. Wallace Stevens' "Whole Harmonium." Syracuse, New York: Syracuse UP, 1970.

 

    • Bloom, Harold. Poetry and Repression: Revisionism from Blake to Stevens. New Haven: Yale UP, 1976.

 

    • ---, ed. Wallace Stevens. New York: Chelsea, 1985.

 

    • ---. Wallace Stevens: The Poems of Our Climate. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1977.

 

    • Bornstein, George. Transformations of Romanticism in Yeats, Eliot, and Stevens. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1976.

 

    • Borroff, Marie. Language and the Poet: Verbal Artistry in Frost, Stevens, and Moore. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1979.

 

    • ---. Wallace Stevens: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1963.

 

    • Bove, Paul A. Destructive Poetics: Heidegger and Modern American Poetry. New York: Columbia UP, 1980.

 

    • Brazeau, Peter. Parts of a World: Wallace Stevens Remembered. New York: Random House, 1983.

 

    • Brogan, Jacqueline Vaught. Stevens and Simile: A Theory of Language. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1986.

 

    • Brown, Merle E. Wallace Stevens: The Poem as Act. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1970.

 

    • Burney, William. Wallace Stevens. New York: Twayne, 1968.

 

    • Buttel, Robert W. Wallace Stevens: The Making of Harmonium. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1967.

 

    • Byers, Thomas B. What I Cannot Say: Self, Word, and World in Whitman, Stevens, and Merwin. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1990.

 

    • Carroll, Joseph. Wallace Stevens' Supreme Fiction: A New Romanticism. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1987.

 

    • Cleghorn, Angus. Wallace Stevens' Poetics: The Neglected Rhetoric. New York: Palgrave, 2000.

 

    • Cook, Eleanor. Poetry, Word-Play, and Word-War in Wallace Stevens. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1988.

 

    • Dickie, Margaret. Lyric Contingencies: Emily Dickinson and Wallace Stevens. Philadelphia: U of Pennslyvania P, 1991.

 

    • Doggett, Frank. Stevens' Poetry of Thought. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1966.

 

    • Doggett, Frank A., and Robert Buttell, eds. Wallace Stevens: A Celebration. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1980.

 

    • Doyle, Charles, ed. Wallace Stevens: The Critical Heritage. London: Routledge, 1985.

 

    • Edelstein, J. M. Wallace Stevens: A Descriptive Bibliography. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 1973.

 

    • Enck, John J. Wallace Stevens: Images and Judgments. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1964.

 

    • Estrin, Barbara L. The American Love Lyric after Auschwitz and Hiroshima. New York: Palgrave, 2001.

 

    • Filreis, Alan. Moderism from Right to Left: Wallace Stevens, the Thirties & Literary Radicalism. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994.

 

    • ---. Wallace Stevens and the Actual World. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1991.

 

    • Fuchs, Daniel. The Comic Spirit of Wallace Stevens. Durham: Duke UP, 1963.

 

    • Gelpi, Albert, ed. Wallace Stevens: The Poetics of Modernism. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1985.

 

    • Grey, Thomas C. The Wallace Stevens Case: Law and the Practice of Poetry. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1991.

 

    • Guetti, James. Word-Music: The Aesthetic Aspect of Narrative Fiction. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1979.

 

    • Hines, Thomas J. The Later Poetry of Wallace Stevens: Phenomenological Parallels with Husserl and Heidegger. Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 1976.

 

    • Holmes, Barbara. The Decomposer's Art: Ideas of Music in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens. New York: Peter Lang, 1990.

 

    • Howe, Irving. A World More Attractive: A View of Modern Literature and Politics. New York: Horizon, 1963.

 

    • Huguelet, Theodore L. Checklist of Wallace Stevens. Columbus, Ohio: Charles E. Merrill, 1970.

 

    • Jarraway, David R. Wallace Stevens and the Question of Belief: Metaphysician in the Dark. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1993.

 

    • Kermode, Frank, and Joan Richardson, eds. Collected Poetry and Prose. New York: Library of America, 1997.

 

    • Kertzer, Jonathan. Poetic Argument: Studies in Modern Poetry. Kingston:: McGill-Queen's U, 1988.

 

    • Kessler, Edward. Images of Wallace Stevens. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers UP, 1972.

 

    • Kramer, Lawrence. Music and Poetry: The Nineteenth Century and After. Berkeley: U of California P, 1984.

 

    • La Guardia, David M. Advance of Chaos: The Sanctifying Imagination of Wallace Stevens. Hanover, NH: UP of New England, 1983.

 

    • Lakritz, Andrew M. Modernism and the Other in Stevens, Frost, and Moore. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1996.

 

    • Leggett, B. J. Wallace Stevens and Poetic Theory: Conceiving the Supreme Fiction. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1987.

 

    • Lensing, George S. Wallace Stevens: A Poet's Growth. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1986.

 

    • Lentricchia, Frank. The Gaiety of Language: An Essay on the Radical Poetics of W. B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens. Berkeley: U of California P, 1968.

 

    • ---. Modernist Quartet. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994.

 

    • Leonard, J. S., and C. E. Wharton. The Fluent Mundo: Wallace Stevens and the Structure of Reality. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1988.

 

    • Libby, Anthony. Mythologies of Nothing: Mystical Death in American Poetry, 1940-1970. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1984.

 

    • Litz, A. Walton. Introspective Voyager: The Poetic Development of Wallace Stevens. New York: Oxford UP, 1972.

 

    • Maeder, Beverly. Wallace Stevens' Experimental Language: The Lion in the Lute. New York: St. Martin's, 1999.

 

    • McCann, Janet. Wallace Stevens Revisited: The Celestial Possible. New York: Twayne, 1995.

 

    • McEwen-Christian, and Statman-Mark, eds. The Alphabet of the Trees: A Guide to Nature Writing. New York: Teachers & Writers Collaborative, 2000.

 

    • McNamara, Peter L. Critics on Wallace Stevens. Coral Gables, Fla.: U of Miami P, 1972.

 

    • Middlebrook, Diane W. Walt Whitman and Wallace Stevens. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell U.P, 1974.

 

    • Morris, Adalaide Kirby. Wallace Stevens: Imagination and Faith. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1974.

 

    • Morse, Samuel F. Wallace Stevens: Poetry as Life. New York: Pegasus, 1970.

 

    • ---. Wallace Stevens: Poetry as Life. New York: Pegassus, 1970.

 

    • Morse, Samuel F., Jackson R. Bryer, and Joseph N. Riddel. Wallace Stevens Checklist and Bibliography of Stevens Criticism. Denver, CO: Swallow, 1963.

 

    • Murphy, Charles M. Wallace Stevens: A Spiritual Poet in a Secular Age. New York: Paulist, 1997.

 

    • Nassar, Eugene P. The Rape of Cinderella: Essays in Literary Continuity. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1970.

 

    • ---. Wallace Stevens, an Anatomy of Figuration. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1965.

 

    • Newcomb, John. Wallace Stevens and Literary Canons. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1992.

 

    • Oliphant, Dave, Thomas Zigal, and Joseph Evans Slate, eds. Wcw and Others: Essays on William Carlos Williams & His Assoc. With Erza Pound, Hilda Doolittle, Marcel Duchamp, Marianne Moore, Emanuel Romano, Wallace Stevens, and Louis Zukofsky. Austin: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, U of Texas, 1985.

 

    • Pearce, Roy Harvey, and J. Hillis Miller. The Act of the Mind: Essays on the Poetry of Wallace Stevens. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1965.

 

    • Perlis, Alan. Wallace Stevens: A World of Transforming Shapes. Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 1976.

 

    • Prasad, Veena Rani. Wallace Stevens: The Symbolic Dimensions of His Poetry. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities, 1987.

 

    • Quinney, Laura. The Poetics of Disappointment: Wordsworth to Ashbery. Charlottesville, VA: UP of Virginia, 1999.

 

    • Quirk, Tom. Bergson and American Culture: The Worlds of Willa Cather and Wallace Stevens. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1990.

 

    • Rae, Patricia. The Practical Muse: Pragmatist Poetics in Hulme, Pound, and Stevens. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 1997.

 

    • Regueiro, Helen. The Limits of Imagination: Wordsworth, Yeats, Stevens. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1976.

 

    • Richardson, Joan. Wallace Stevens: The Early Years, 1879-1923. New York: Morrow Beech Tree, 1986.

 

    • Riddel, Joseph N. The Clairvoyant Eye: The Poetry and Poetics of Wallace Stevens. Louisiana State UP. Baton Rouge, 1965.

 

    • Rieke, Alison. The Senses of Nonsense. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1992.

 

    • Robinson, Fred Miller. The Comedy of Language: Studies in Modern Comic Literature. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1980.

 

    • Rosu, Anca. The Metaphysics of Sound in Wallace Stevens. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1995.

 

    • Rotella, Guy. Reading and Writing Nature: The Poetry of Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, and Elizabeth Bishop. Boston: Northeastern UP, 1991.

 

    • Sampson, Theodore. A Cure of the Mind: The Poetics of Wallace Stevens. Montreal, QC: Black Rose, 2000.

 

    • Schaum, Melita, ed. Wallace Stevens & the Feminine. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1993.

 

    • Schaum, Melita, and John N. Serio, eds. Wallace Stevens and the Critical Schools. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1988.

 

    • Schneider, Daniel J. Symbolism: The Manichean Vision: A Study in the Art of James, Conrad, Woolf, & Stevens. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1975.

 

    • Schulze, Robin G. The Web of Friendship: Marianne Moore and Wallace Stevens. Ann Arbor, MI: U of Michigan P, 1995.

 

    • Schwarz, Daniel R. Narrative and Representation in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens: 'a Tune Beyond Us, yet Ourselves'. New York: St. Martin's, 1993.

 

    • Segal, Robert A., ed. Theories of Myth: Literary Criticism and Myth. New York: Garland, 1996.

 

    • Serio, John N., and B. J. Leggett, eds. Teaching Wallace Stevens: Practical Essays. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1994.

 

    • Sharpe, Tony. Wallace Stevens: A Literary Life. New York: St. Martin's, 1999.

 

    • Stanford, Donald E. Revolution and Convention in Modern Poetry: Studies in Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Edwin Arlington Robinson, and Yvor Winters. Newark and London: U of Delaware P. Associated UPs, 1983.

 

    • Steinman, Lisa M. Made in America: Science, Technology, and American Modernist Poets. New Haven: Yale UP, 1987.

 

    • Stern, Herbert J. Wallace Stevens, Art of Uncertainty. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1966.

 

    • Sukenick, Ronald. In Form: Digressions on the Act of Fiction. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1985.

 

    • ---. Wallace Stevens: Musing the Obscure. New York: New York UP, 1967.

 

    • Tigges, Wim, ed. Moments of Moment: Aspects of the Literary Epiphany. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1999.

 

    • Vendler, Helen. Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen out of Desire. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1984.

 

    • Vendler, Helen H. On Extended Wings: Wallace Stevens' Longer Poems. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1969.

 

    • Voros, Gyorgyi. Notations of the Wild: Ecology in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1997.

 

    • Walker, David. The Transparent Lyric: Reading and Meaning in the Poetry of Stevens and Williams. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1984.

 

    • Webb, Eugene. The Dark Dove: The Sacred and Secular in Modern Literature. Seattle: U of Washington P, 1975.

 

    • Wells, Henry W. Introduction to Wallace Stevens. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1964.

 

    • Whiting, Anthony. The Never-Resting Mind: Wallace Stevens' Romantic Irony. Ann Arbor, MI: U of Michigan P, 1996.

 

    • Woodman, Leonora. Stanza My Stone: Wallace Stevens and the Hermetic Tradition. West Lafayette: Purdue UP, 1983.

 

    • Woodward, Kathleen. At Last, the Real Distinguished Thing: The Late Poems of Eliot, Pound, Stevens, and Williams. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 1980.