About the Book
This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes.
This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.
Table of Contents:
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 Walton, ‘Beyond the Wasteland’, Nation; Chapter 26 Morton Dauwen Zabel, on Stevens’ sincerity and exactitude, from ‘The Harmonium of Wallace Stevens’, Poetry; Chapter 27 Raymond Larsson, from ‘The Beau as Poet’, Commonweal; Chapter 28 R.P. Blackmur, ‘Examples of Wallace Stevens’, Hound and Horn; Part 4 Ideas Of Order; Chapter 29 Howard Baker, Stevens as an explorer of consciousness, from ‘Wallace Stevens and Other Poets’, Southern Review; Chapter 30 Stanley Burnshaw, from ‘Turmoil in the Middle Ground’, New Masses; Chapter 31 Harriet Monroe, on Stevens’ ‘serene acceptance’, from ‘He Plays the Present’, Poetry; Chapter 32 Babette Deutsch, ‘The Gaudiness of Poetry’, New York Herald Tribune Books; Chapter 33 Marianne Moore, on Stevens’ ‘unembarrassing souvenirs’, Criterion; Chapter 34 F. O. Matthiessen, from ‘Society and Solitude in Poetry’, Yale Review; Chapter 35 John Holmes, ‘But this time some meaning has crept in’, from ‘Five American Poets’, Virginia Quarterly Review; Chapter 36 Theodore Roethke, on ‘a rich and special sensibility’, New Republic; Chapter 37 R. P. Blackmur, Stevens’ double language, from ‘The Composition in Nine Poets’, Southern Review; Chapter 38 William Rose Benét, on ‘a virtuoso and voluptuary of language’, from ‘Three Poets and a Few Opinions’, North American Review; Part 5 Owl’s Clover; Chapter 39 Ruth Lechlitner, ‘Imagination as Reality’, New York Herald Tribune Books; Chapter 40 Eda Lou Walton, ‘Mr Stevens … finds it exceedingly difficult to speak directly’, New York Times Book Review; Chapter 41 Ben Belitt, ‘the edifice of a new technique begins to take shape’, from ‘The Violent Mind’, Nation; Chapter 42 Marianne Moore, ‘Unanimity and Fortitude’, Poetry; Part 6 The Man With the Blue Guitar and Other Poems; Chapter 43 Eda Lou Walton, from ‘Wallace Stevens’s Two Worlds’, New York Times Book Review; Chapter 44 Ruth Lechlitner, ‘a master of form’, New York Herald Tribune Books; Chapter 45 William Carlos Williams, on ‘a troubled man who sings well’, New Republic; Chapter 46 Robert Fitzgerald, ‘Thoughts Revolved’, Poetry; Chapter 47 Selden Rodman, on Stevens’ distance from ‘the good earth’, Common Sense; Chapter 48 Dorothy Van Ghent, on Stevens as unwitting Marxist, New Masses; Chapter 49 Delmore Schwartz, Stevens’ ‘special kind of museum’, Part isan Review; Chapter 50 Julian Symons, ‘A Short View of Wallace Stevens’, Life and Letters Today; Part 7 Part s of a World; Chapter 51 Weldon Kees, ‘Part s: But a World’, New Republic; Chapter 52 Louise Bogan, ‘the whole question of Stevens’ place in American poetry’, New Yorker; Chapter 53 Horace Gregory, on Stevens and the art of analogy, ‘An Examination of Wallace Stevens in a time of War’, Accent; Chapter 54 Hi Simons, ‘The Humanism of Wallace Stevens’, Poetry; Chapter 55 Frank Jones, ‘to wish, sometimes, that he were an eagle’, Nation; Chapter 56 Mary M. Colum, on Stevens’ ‘separation from life’, New York Times Book Review; Chapter 57 Louis Untermeyer, ‘DePart ure from Dandyism’, Saturday Review; Part 8 Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction; Chapter 58 R.P. Blackmur, ‘An Abstraction Blooded’, Part isan Review; Chapter 59 Dudley Fitts, on ‘one of the master verbalists of modern English’, Saturday Review; Chapter 60 Yvor Winters, ‘Wallace Stevens, or the Hedonist’s Progress’, from The Anatomy of Nonsense; Part 9 Esthétique du Mal; Chapter 61 Gerard Previn Meyer, on Stevens’ ‘equilibrium’, from ‘Wallace Stevens: Major Poet’, Saturday Review; Chapter 62 Wylie Sypher, ‘Connoisseur in Chaos: Wallace Stevens’, Part isan Review; Chapter 63 George Dillon, ‘A Blue Phenomenon’, Poetry; Chapter 64 Louis L. Martz, ‘Wallace Stevens: The Romance of the Precise’, Yale Poetry Review; Part 10 Transport to Summer; Chapter 65 Robert Lowell, on Stevens the ‘improvisor’, Nation; Chapter 66 F. O. Matthiessen, ‘Wallace Stevens at 67’, New York Times Book Review; Chapter 67 Louise Bogan, Stevens’ poetry ‘a luxury product’, New Yorker; Chapter 68 Richard Eberhart, ‘Notes to a Class in Adult Education’, Accent; Chapter 69 Delmore Schwartz, on ‘an inspired minister in a small church’, from ‘Auden and Stevens’, Part isan Review; Chapter 70 Louis L. Martz, ‘the unique bird, inimitable’, Yale Review; Chapter 71 R. P. Blackmur, from ‘Poetry and Sensibility: Some Rules of Thumb’, Poetry; Chapter 72 72. Victor Tejera, on Stevens’ ‘largely philosophical attitude’, Journal of Philosophy; Chapter 73 Peter Viereck, that Stevens has become ‘brilliantly trivial’, from ‘Some Notes on Wallace Stevens’, Contemporary Poetry, Arbena Joseph L.; Part 11 Three Academic Pieces; Chapter 74 M. L. Rosenthal, on Stevens as ‘hedonist, pluralist and Platonist’, New York Herald Tribune Weekly Book Review, Genest Simon; Chapter 75 Marius Bewley, on the relation between Stevens’ early and later poetry, from ‘The Poetry of Wallace Stevens’, Part isan Review, Genest Simon; Part 12 The Auroras of Autumn; Chapter 76 Louise Bogan, ‘His emotions seem to be transfixed’, New Yorker, Genest Simon; Chapter 77 William Van O’Connor, Stevens’ narrowing theme, ‘that we are haunted by the idea of death’, Poetry, Genest Simon; Chapter 78 David Daiches, on ‘a master of poetic artifice, perhaps the most perfect in our time’, Yale Review, Genest Simon; Chapter 79 Jean Garrigue, on Stevens’ ‘essential prose’, ‘Search for Reality in New Haven’, Saturday Review, Genest Simon; Chapter 80 M. L. Rosenthal, ‘Stevens in a Minor Key’, New Republic, Genest Simon; Chapter 81 Randall Jarrell,’Reflections on Wallace Stevens’, Part isan Review, Genest Simon; Chapter 82 Vivienne Koch, ‘The Necessary Angels of Earth’, Sewanee Review, Genest Simon; Chapter 83 Joseph Bennett, on ‘a lifetime of patient devotion to the highest standards’, from ‘Some Notes on American Poetry’, Nine, Genest Simon; Part 13 The Necessary Angel; Chapter 84 Winfield Townley Scott, ‘Stevens and the Angel of Earth’, Providence Journal; Chapter 85 Babette Deutsch, from ‘Pastures of the Imagination’, New York Herald Tribune Books; Chapter 86 BRolf Fjelde, ‘from … the hieratic to the credible’, New Republic; Chapter 87 Paul Dinkins, ‘Stevens is no esthete;he is a thinker’, Dallas Morning News; Chapter 88 Hayden Carruth, ‘Stevens as Essayist’, Nation; Chapter 89 Edwin Honig, from ‘Three Masters’, Voices; Chapter 90 Bernard Heringman,‘The Critical Angel’, Kenyon Review; Chapter 91 Harry Levin, ‘candidly and classically aristocratic’, Yale Review; Part 14 Selected Poems; Chapter 92 Richard Murphy, ‘The Music of Poetry’, Spectator; Chapter 93 G.S. Fraser, ‘The Chameleon’s Dish’, New Statesman; Chapter 94 William Empson, on Stevens the ‘beau linguist’, Listener; Chapter 95 Donald Davie,’”Essential Gaudiness”: The Poems of Wallace Stevens’, Twentieth Century; Chapter 96 Unsigned review, Stevens as ‘the figure on the high-wire attempting balance amid disorder’, Times Literary Supplement; Chapter 97 Bernard Bergonzi, ‘The Sound of a Blue Guitar’, Nine; Chapter 98 William Carlos Williams, from ‘A Celebration for Wallace Stevens’, Trinity Review; Part 15 Collected Poems; Chapter 99 Samuel French Morse, ‘A Poet who Speaks the Poem as It Is’, New York Times Book Review; Chapter 100 John Ciardi, from ‘Wallace Stevens’ “Absolute Music” Nation; Chapter 101 Delmore Schwartz, from ‘In the Orchards of the Imagination’, New Republic; Chapter 102 Lawrence Ferlinghetti, on a poetry of ‘cerebral phosphorescences’, San Francisco Chronicle; Chapter 103 Randall Jarrell, ‘a book like this is truly an occasion’, Harper’s Magazine; Chapter 104 Hayden Carruth, ‘Stevens is Elizabethan in his attitude toward language’, Poetry; Chapter 105 R. P. Blackmur, from ‘The Substance that Prevails’, Kenyon Review; Chapter 106 Randall Jarrell discovers ‘a great poem of a new kind’, Yale Review; Chapter 107 G. S. Fraser, from ‘The Aesthete and the Sensationalist’, Part isan Review; Chapter 108 Donald Davie, on Stevens’ prolixity, conservatism and provincialism, Shenandoah; Chapter 109 John Holloway, ‘Bravura adequate to this great hymn’, Spectator; Chapter 110 Alain Bosquet, from ‘Deux poètes philosophes: Wallace Stevens et Conrad Aiken’, La Table Ronde; Part 16 Opus Posthumous; Chapter 111 William Carlos Williams, ‘Poet of a Steadfast Pattern’, New York Times Book Review Opus Posthumous; Chapter 112 Kenneth Rexroth, a glance at Stevens’ influences from French, Nation; Chapter 113 Irving Howe, on poetry as self-creation, ‘Another Way of looking at the Blackbird’, New Republic; Chapter 114 Anthony Hecht, ‘a sort of heroism’, Hudson Review; Chapter 115 Frank Kermode, ‘The Gaiety of Language’, Spectator; Part 17 Opus Posthumous London, 1959 and The Necessary Angel London, 1960; Chapter 116 Ifor Evans, from ‘The Insurance Man as a Poet’, Birmingham Post; Chapter 117 Austin Clarke, ‘a naiveté which led to much complexity’, from ‘Business as Usual’, Irish Times; Chapter 118 Unsigned review, ‘Poet of Mind and Reality’, Times Literary Supplement; Chapter 119 SamHynes, ‘Uncompromising Realist’, TimeandTide; Chapter 120 Henry Reed, ‘an unexpected valuation of psychic health’, Listener; Chapter 121 Elizabeth Jennings, on Stevens as a visionary writer, London Magazine; Part 18 Letters of Wallace Stevens; Chapter 122 Unsigned review,’The Two Lives of Wallace Stevens’, Times Literary Supplement; Chapter 123 V. S. Pritchett, ‘Truffles in the Sky’, New Statesman;
About the Author :
Charles Doyle
