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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |14 pages
Early Reviews
chapter 1|1 pages
Shaemas O Sheel, from ‘Chicago Poets and Poetry', Minaret
chapter 3|1 pages
Ralph Block, from ‘The Wisconsin Players Now at the Neighborhood Playhouse', New York Tribune
chapter 4|1 pages
Conrad Aiken, on Stevens' ‘delicate originality' of mind, from Scepticisms: Notes on Contemporary Poetry
chapter 5|1 pages
Carl Sandburg, from a letter to Louis Untermeyer about The New Era in American Poetry
chapter 6|5 pages
Conrad Aiken, on Stevens and the sociological-nationalistic view of poetry, New Republic
chapter 7|2 pages
Harriet Monroe, from ‘Mr. Yeats and the Poetic Drama', Poetry
part |48 pages
Harmonium
chapter 9|1 pages
Mark Van Doren, ‘Poets and Wits', Nation
chapter 10|3 pages
Matthew Josephson, on ‘an extraordinary personality', Broom
chapter 11|2 pages
Marjorie Allen Seiffert, from ‘The Intellectual Tropics', Poetry
chapter 12|2 pages
John Gould Fletcher, from ‘The Revival of Estheticism', Freeman
chapter 14|2 pages
Allen Tate, on Wallace Stevens as ‘radical', Nashville Tennessean
chapter 15|4 pages
Harriet Monroe, on ‘a flavorously original poetic personality', Poetry
chapter 16|2 pages
Edmund Wilson, on Stevens' lack of emotion, New Republic
chapter 18|2 pages
Louis Untermeyer, on ‘a reticence which results in determined obscurity', Yale Review
chapter 19|7 pages
Paul Rosenfeld, on ‘Another Pierrot', from Men Seen — Twenty-Four Modern Authors
chapter 20|4 pages
Gorham B. Munson, ‘The Dandyism of Wallace Stevens', Dial
chapter 21|1 pages
Allen Tate, on Stevens' underlying Puritanism, from ‘American Poetry Since 1920', Bookman
chapter 22|3 pages
Alfred Kreymborg, on Stevens as one of the ‘Originals and Eccentrics', from Our Singing Strength
part |39 pages
Harmonium
chapter 23|1 pages
Conrad Aiken, on Stevens as humorist, from a letter to R.P. Blackmur
chapter 24|2 pages
Percy Hutchison, ‘Pure Poetry and Mr. Wallace Stevens', New York Times Book Review
chapter 25|2 pages
Eda Lou Walton, ‘Beyond the Wasteland', Nation
chapter 26|2 pages
Morton Dauwen Zabel, on Stevens' sincerity and exactitude, from ‘The Harmonium of Wallace Stevens', Poetry
chapter 28|30 pages
R.P. Blackmur, ‘Examples of Wallace Stevens', Hound and Horn
part |30 pages
Ideas Of Order
chapter 29|10 pages
Howard Baker, Stevens as an explorer of consciousness, from ‘Wallace Stevens and Other Poets', Southern Review
chapter 30|4 pages
Stanley Burnshaw, from ‘Turmoil in the Middle Ground', New Masses
chapter 31|1 pages
Harriet Monroe, on Stevens' ‘serene acceptance', from ‘He Plays the Present’, Poetry
chapter 32|4 pages
Babette Deutsch, ‘The Gaudiness of Poetry', New York Herald Tribune Books
chapter 33|2 pages
Marianne Moore, on Stevens' ‘unembarrassing souvenirs', Criterion
chapter 34|2 pages
F. O. Matthiessen, from ‘Society and Solitude in Poetry', Yale Review
chapter 35|1 pages
John Holmes, ‘But this time some meaning has crept in', from ‘Five American Poets', Virginia Quarterly Review
chapter 36|1 pages
Theodore Roethke, on ‘a rich and special sensibility', New Republic
chapter 37|2 pages
R. P. Blackmur, Stevens' double language, from ‘The Composition in Nine Poets', Southern Review
chapter 38|2 pages
William Rose Benét, on ‘a virtuoso and voluptuary of language', from ‘Three Poets and a Few Opinions', North American Review
part |14 pages
Owl's Clover
chapter 39|4 pages
Ruth Lechlitner, ‘Imagination as Reality', New York Herald Tribune Books
chapter 40|2 pages
Eda Lou Walton, ‘Mr Stevens … finds it exceedingly difficult to speak directly', New York Times Book Review
chapter 41|3 pages
Ben Belitt, ‘the edifice of a new technique begins to take shape', from ‘The Violent Mind', Nation
chapter 42|4 pages
Marianne Moore, ‘Unanimity and Fortitude', Poetry
part |25 pages
The Man With the Blue Guitar and Other Poems
chapter 43|1 pages
Eda Lou Walton, from ‘Wallace Stevens's Two Worlds', New York Times Book Review
chapter 44|1 pages
Ruth Lechlitner, ‘a master of form', New York Herald Tribune Books
chapter 45|3 pages
William Carlos Williams, on ‘a troubled man who sings well', New Republic
chapter 46|3 pages
Robert Fitzgerald, ‘Thoughts Revolved', Poetry
chapter 47|1 pages
Selden Rodman, on Stevens' distance from ‘the good earth', Common Sense
chapter 48|1 pages
Dorothy Van Ghent, on Stevens as unwitting Marxist, New Masses
chapter 49|6 pages
Delmore Schwartz, Stevens' ‘special kind of museum', Partisan Review
chapter 50|8 pages
Julian Symons, ‘A Short View of Wallace Stevens', Life and Letters Today
part |22 pages
Parts of a World
chapter 51|2 pages
Weldon Kees, ‘Parts: But a World', New Republic
chapter 52|2 pages
Louise Bogan, ‘the whole question of Stevens' place in American poetry', New Yorker
chapter 53|6 pages
Horace Gregory, on Stevens and the art of analogy, ‘An Examination of Wallace Stevens in a time of War', Accent
chapter 54|4 pages
Hi Simons, ‘The Humanism of Wallace Stevens', Poetry
chapter 55|3 pages
Frank Jones, ‘to wish, sometimes, that he were an eagle', Nation
chapter 56|2 pages
Mary M. Colum, on Stevens' ‘separation from life', New York Times Book Review
chapter 57|2 pages
Louis Untermeyer, ‘Departure from Dandyism', Saturday Review
part |36 pages
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction
chapter 58|4 pages
R.P. Blackmur, ‘An Abstraction Blooded', Partisan Review
chapter 59|2 pages
Dudley Fitts, on ‘one of the master verbalists of modern English', Saturday Review
chapter 60|29 pages
Yvor Winters, ‘Wallace Stevens, or the Hedonist's Progress', from The Anatomy of Nonsense
part |31 pages
Esthétique du Mal
chapter 61|2 pages
Gerard Previn Meyer, on Stevens' ‘equilibrium', from ‘Wallace Stevens: Major Poet’, Saturday Review
chapter 62|14 pages
Wylie Sypher, ‘Connoisseur in Chaos: Wallace Stevens', Partisan Review
chapter 64|11 pages
Louis L. Martz, ‘Wallace Stevens: The Romance of the Precise', Yale Poetry Review
part |24 pages
Transport to Summer
chapter 65|4 pages
Robert Lowell, on Stevens the ‘improvisor', Nation
chapter 66|3 pages
F. O. Matthiessen, ‘Wallace Stevens at 67', New York Times Book Review
chapter 67|1 pages
Louise Bogan, Stevens' poetry ‘a luxury product', New Yorker
chapter 68|4 pages
Richard Eberhart, ‘Notes to a Class in Adult Education', Accent
chapter 69|2 pages
Delmore Schwartz, on ‘an inspired minister in a small church', from ‘Auden and Stevens', Partisan Review
chapter 70|3 pages
Louis L. Martz, ‘the unique bird, inimitable', Yale Review
chapter 71|2 pages
R. P. Blackmur, from ‘Poetry and Sensibility: Some Rules of Thumb', Poetry
chapter 72|2 pages
72. Victor Tejera, on Stevens' ‘largely philosophical attitude', Journal of Philosophy
chapter 73|2 pages
Peter Viereck, that Stevens has become ‘brilliantly trivial', from ‘Some Notes on Wallace Stevens', Contemporary Poetry
part |8 pages
Three Academic Pieces
chapter 74|1 pages
M. L. Rosenthal, on Stevens as ‘hedonist, pluralist and Platonist', New York Herald Tribune Weekly Book Review
chapter 75|6 pages
Marius Bewley, on the relation between Stevens' early and later poetry, from ‘The Poetry of Wallace Stevens', Partisan Review
part |31 pages
The Auroras of Autumn
chapter 76|1 pages
Louise Bogan, ‘His emotions seem to be transfixed', New Yorker
chapter 77|4 pages
William Van O'Connor, Stevens' narrowing theme, ‘that we are haunted by the idea of death’, Poetry
chapter 78|1 pages
David Daiches, on ‘a master of poetic artifice, perhaps the most perfect in our time', Yale Review
chapter 79|3 pages
Jean Garrigue, on Stevens' ‘essential prose', ‘Search for Reality in New Haven’, Saturday Review
chapter 80|2 pages
M. L. Rosenthal, ‘Stevens in a Minor Key', New Republic
chapter 81|13 pages
Randall Jarrell,'Reflections on Wallace Stevens', Partisan Review
chapter 82|3 pages
Vivienne Koch, ‘The Necessary Angels of Earth', Sewanee Review
chapter 83|3 pages
Joseph Bennett, on ‘a lifetime of patient devotion to the highest standards', from ‘Some Notes on American Poetry', Nine
part |18 pages
The Necessary Angel
chapter 84|1 pages
Winfield Townley Scott, ‘Stevens and the Angel of Earth', Providence Journal
chapter 85|2 pages
Babette Deutsch, from ‘Pastures of the Imagination', New York Herald Tribune Books
chapter 86|1 pages
BRolf Fjelde, ‘from … the hieratic to the credible', New Republic
chapter 87|2 pages
Paul Dinkins, ‘Stevens is no esthete;he is a thinker', Dallas Morning News
chapter 90|5 pages
Bernard Heringman,‘The Critical Angel', Kenyon Review
chapter 91|1 pages
Harry Levin, ‘candidly and classically aristocratic', Yale Review
part |29 pages
Selected Poems
chapter 93|2 pages
G.S. Fraser, ‘The Chameleon's Dish', New Statesman
chapter 94|2 pages
William Empson, on Stevens the ‘beau linguist', Listener
chapter 95|10 pages
Donald Davie,'”Essential Gaudiness”: The Poems of Wallace Stevens', Twentieth Century
chapter 96|3 pages
Unsigned review, Stevens as ‘the figure on the high-wire attempting balance amid disorder', Times Literary Supplement
chapter 97|5 pages
Bernard Bergonzi, ‘The Sound of a Blue Guitar', Nine
chapter 98|3 pages
William Carlos Williams, from ‘A Celebration for Wallace Stevens', Trinity Review
part |38 pages
Collected Poems
chapter 99|4 pages
Samuel French Morse, ‘A Poet who Speaks the Poem as It Is', New York Times Book Review
chapter 100|1 pages
John Ciardi, from ‘Wallace Stevens' “Absolute Music” Nation
chapter 101|4 pages
Delmore Schwartz, from ‘In the Orchards of the Imagination', New Republic
chapter 102|1 pages
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, on a poetry of ‘cerebral phosphorescences', San Francisco Chronicle
chapter 103|1 pages
Randall Jarrell, ‘a book like this is truly an occasion', Harper's Magazine
chapter 104|4 pages
Hayden Carruth, ‘Stevens is Elizabethan in his attitude toward language', Poetry
chapter 105|1 pages
R. P. Blackmur, from ‘The Substance that Prevails', Kenyon Review
chapter 106|14 pages
Randall Jarrell discovers ‘a great poem of a new kind', Yale Review
chapter 107|2 pages
G. S. Fraser, from ‘The Aesthete and the Sensationalist', Partisan Review
chapter 108|2 pages
Donald Davie, on Stevens' prolixity, conservatism and provincialism, Shenandoah
chapter 109|2 pages
John Holloway, ‘Bravura adequate to this great hymn', Spectator
chapter 110|1 pages
Alain Bosquet, from ‘Deux poètes philosophes: Wallace Stevens et Conrad Aiken', La Table Ronde
part |20 pages
Opus Posthumous
chapter 111|3 pages
William Carlos Williams, ‘Poet of a Steadfast Pattern', New York Times Book Review Opus Posthumous
chapter 112|2 pages
Kenneth Rexroth, a glance at Stevens' influences from French, Nation
chapter 113|9 pages
Irving Howe, on poetry as self-creation, ‘Another Way of looking at the Blackbird', New Republic
part |17 pages
Opus Posthumous London, 1959 and The Necessary Angel London, 1960
chapter 116|2 pages
Ifor Evans, from ‘The Insurance Man as a Poet', Birmingham Post
chapter 117|2 pages
Austin Clarke, ‘a naiveté which led to much complexity', from ‘Business as Usual', Irish Times
chapter 118|5 pages
Unsigned review, ‘Poet of Mind and Reality', Times Literary Supplement
chapter 120|2 pages
Henry Reed, ‘an unexpected valuation of psychic health', Listener
chapter 121|3 pages
Elizabeth Jennings, on Stevens as a visionary writer, London Magazine
part |13 pages
Letters of Wallace Stevens