Wallace Stevens Rage for Order

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Summary

This revisionary study of Wallace Stevens queries the dominant interpretations of the poet's career.

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Foreword	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
"the people who don't know": the British and Stevens	p. 1
Stevens and Stevensians	p. 6
Harmonium to Ideas of Order	p. 10
"a book too mad to read"?: Harmonium	p. 10
"A Pluralistic Universe": Harmonium	p. 20
From Comedian to Virile Poet: Ideas of Order	p. 30
Parts of a World	p. 37
"the never-resting mind"	p. 37
"the hero-land"	p. 46
"trying to put the thing together"	p. 58
Notes and Supreme Fictions	p. 65
"Extracts from Addresses": Stevens' Prose in a Time of War	p. 65
Grand Poem and Preliminary Minutiae: "Notes toward a Supreme Fiction"	p. 77
"things of opposite nature": "Notes toward a Supreme Fiction"	p. 84
"an end of the imagination"	p. 94
"the far ends of memory": Stevens and Thomas MacGreevy	p. 94
"Farewell to an Idea": The Auroras of Autumn to The Rock	p. 105
Conclusion	p. 123
"What Then?": The Late Poems of Stevens and Yeats	p. 123
"a return to an origin": Placing Stevens' Late Poems	p. 131
Notes	p. 136
Works Cited	p. 182
Index of Works	p. 193
Index of Names	p. 196
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