ABSTRACT

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.

part |14 pages

Early Reviews

chapter 1|1 pages

Shaemas O Sheel, from ‘Chicago Poets and Poetry', Minaret

Vol. I, February 1916, 26–7

chapter 2|1 pages

Anonymous, from the New York Times

22 October 1917, 13

chapter 7|2 pages

Harriet Monroe, from ‘Mr. Yeats and the Poetic Drama', Poetry

Vol. XVI, no. 1, April 1920, 33–5

chapter 8|1 pages

Yvor Winters, from'A Cool Master', Poetry

Vol. XIX, no. 5, February 1922, 287–8

part |48 pages

Harmonium

chapter 9|1 pages

Mark Van Doren, ‘Poets and Wits', Nation

Vol. 117, no. 340, 10 October 1923, 400, 402

chapter 10|3 pages

Matthew Josephson, on ‘an extraordinary personality', Broom

Vol. 5, November 1923, 236–7

chapter 11|2 pages

Marjorie Allen Seiffert, from ‘The Intellectual Tropics', Poetry

Vol. XXIII, no. 3, December 1923, 154–60

chapter 12|2 pages

John Gould Fletcher, from ‘The Revival of Estheticism', Freeman

Vol. 8, 19 December 1923, 355–6.

chapter 13|8 pages

Marianne Moore, ‘Well Moused, Lion', Dial

Vol. LXXVI, January 1924, 84–91

chapter 15|4 pages

Harriet Monroe, on ‘a flavorously original poetic personality', Poetry

Vol. XXIII, no. 6, March 1924, 322–7

chapter 16|2 pages

Edmund Wilson, on Stevens' lack of emotion, New Republic

Vol. XXXVII, no. 485, 19 March 1924, 102, 103

chapter 17|6 pages

Llewelyn Powys, ‘The Thirteenth Way', Dial

Vol. LXXVII, July 1924, 45–50

chapter 20|4 pages

Gorham B. Munson, ‘The Dandyism of Wallace Stevens', Dial

Vol. LXXIX, November 1925, 413–7

part |39 pages

Harmonium

chapter 23|1 pages

Conrad Aiken, on Stevens as humorist, from a letter to R.P. Blackmur

14 February 1931, Selected Letters of Conrad Aiken, 170

chapter 25|2 pages

Eda Lou Walton, ‘Beyond the Wasteland', Nation

Vol. CXXXII, 9 September 1931, 263–4

chapter 27|1 pages

Raymond Larsson, from ‘The Beau as Poet', Commonweal

Vol. 15, 6 April 1932, 604

chapter 28|30 pages

R.P. Blackmur, ‘Examples of Wallace Stevens', Hound and Horn

Vol. 5, Winter 1932, 223–55

part |30 pages

Ideas Of Order

chapter 34|2 pages

F. O. Matthiessen, from ‘Society and Solitude in Poetry', Yale Review

Vol. XXV, no. 3, March 1936, 603–7

part |25 pages

The Man With the Blue Guitar and Other Poems

chapter 46|3 pages

Robert Fitzgerald, ‘Thoughts Revolved', Poetry

Vol. 51, no. 3, December 1937, 153–7

chapter 49|6 pages

Delmore Schwartz, Stevens' ‘special kind of museum', Partisan Review

Vol. 4, no. 3, February 1938, 49–52

part |22 pages

Parts of a World

chapter 51|2 pages

Weldon Kees, ‘Parts: But a World', New Republic

Vol. 107, no. 3, 28 September 1942, 387–8

chapter 54|4 pages

Hi Simons, ‘The Humanism of Wallace Stevens', Poetry

Vol. 61, no. 2, November 1942, 448–52

chapter 57|2 pages

Louis Untermeyer, ‘Departure from Dandyism', Saturday Review

Vol. 25, no. 51, 19 December 1942, 1

part |36 pages

Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction

part |31 pages

Esthétique du Mal

part |24 pages

Transport to Summer

chapter 65|4 pages

Robert Lowell, on Stevens the ‘improvisor', Nation

Vol. 164, no. 14, 5 April 1947, 400–2

chapter 67|1 pages

Louise Bogan, Stevens' poetry ‘a luxury product', New Yorker

Vol. 23, no. 11, 3 May 1947, 101

chapter 68|4 pages

Richard Eberhart, ‘Notes to a Class in Adult Education', Accent

Vol. 7, no. 4, Summer 1947, 251–3

chapter 70|3 pages

Louis L. Martz, ‘the unique bird, inimitable', Yale Review

Vol. XXXVII, no. 2, December 1947, 339–41

chapter 71|2 pages

R. P. Blackmur, from ‘Poetry and Sensibility: Some Rules of Thumb', Poetry

Vol. 71, no. 5, February 1948, 271–6

part |31 pages

The Auroras of Autumn

chapter 76|1 pages

Louise Bogan, ‘His emotions seem to be transfixed', New Yorker

Vol. 26, no. 36, 28 October 1950, 111–12

chapter 80|2 pages

M. L. Rosenthal, ‘Stevens in a Minor Key', New Republic

Vol. 124, 7 May 1951, 26–8

chapter 81|13 pages

Randall Jarrell,'Reflections on Wallace Stevens', Partisan Review

Vol. 18, May-June 1951, 335–44

chapter 82|3 pages

Vivienne Koch, ‘The Necessary Angels of Earth', Sewanee Review

Vol. LIX, no. 4, October-December 1951, 664–7

part |18 pages

The Necessary Angel

chapter 86|1 pages

BRolf Fjelde, ‘from … the hieratic to the credible', New Republic

Vol. 126, 4 February 1952, 19–19

chapter 88|3 pages

Hayden Carruth, ‘Stevens as Essayist', Nation

Vol.174, no.24,14 June 1952,584–584

chapter 89|2 pages

Edwin Honig, from ‘Three Masters', Voices

Vol. 148, May-August 1952, 34–34

chapter 90|5 pages

Bernard Heringman,‘The Critical Angel', Kenyon Review

Vol. XIV, no. 3, Summer 1952, 520–520

chapter 91|1 pages

Harry Levin, ‘candidly and classically aristocratic', Yale Review

Vol. XLI, no. 4, June 1952, 615–615

part |29 pages

Selected Poems

chapter 92|4 pages

Richard Murphy, ‘The Music of Poetry', Spectator

13 February 1953, 191–191

chapter 93|2 pages

G.S. Fraser, ‘The Chameleon's Dish', New Statesman

Vol. 45, no. 1145, 14 February 1953, 181

chapter 94|2 pages

William Empson, on Stevens the ‘beau linguist', Listener

Vol. 49, no. 1256, 26 March 1953, 521

chapter 97|5 pages

Bernard Bergonzi, ‘The Sound of a Blue Guitar', Nine

No. 10, Winter 1953–1953, 48–48

part |38 pages

Collected Poems

chapter 100|1 pages

John Ciardi, from ‘Wallace Stevens' “Absolute Music” Nation

Vol. 179, no. 16, 16 October 1954, 346–7

chapter 105|1 pages

R. P. Blackmur, from ‘The Substance that Prevails', Kenyon Review

Vol. XVII, no. 1, Winter 1955,94–110

chapter 106|14 pages

Randall Jarrell discovers ‘a great poem of a new kind', Yale Review

Vol. XLIV, Spring 1955, 340–53

chapter 107|2 pages

G. S. Fraser, from ‘The Aesthete and the Sensationalist', Partisan Review

Vol. 22, no. 2, Spring 1955, 265–72

part |20 pages

Opus Posthumous

part |17 pages

Opus Posthumous London, 1959 and The Necessary Angel London, 1960

part |13 pages

Letters of Wallace Stevens