1. To all readers of Stevens who have not already encountered Helen Vendler’s Words Chosen Out Of Desire and On Extended Wings:…
Helen Vendler on Stevens’s Anger and Desire
“The lapses and failures of idealization–especially the idealization of romantic love, forced on us by nature, culture, and, above all,…
Cooper Renner on Stevens
In the ’74-’75 school year, when I was a beginning teacher, I had a combined fifth-sixth grade math class in…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love: On Wallace Stevens’s “The Snow Man”
The Snow Man One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees…
Wallace Stevens Online Resources
There are a number of fantastic online resources about Wallace Stevens and his work. One of the best, for me,…
Eleanor Cook Interview on Stevens
Eleanor Cook is Professor Emerita of English at the University of Toronto. Her books include Enigmas and Riddles in Literature,…
Sam Rasnake on “Anecdote of the Jar”
Anecdote of the Jar I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the…
Ken Sparling on Wallace Stevens
WHAT IT’S LIKE READING WALLACE STEVENS It’s like waking up early in the morning.
Only a Loose Stevens Connection
I’ll be the first to admit I’m not playing with a full deck—mine’s missing the eight of clubs and the…
Spawn of Stevens
A monster is known by its spawn. Or that’s one way we know a monster, at least, and few presences…