The Motive for Metaphor You like it under the trees in autumn, Because everything is half dead. The wind…
James Robison on Stevens
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…
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.
James Longenbach Interview on Stevens
James Longenbach is a poet and a critic whose most recent collection of poems, The Iron Key, is a meditation…
Bounty of Titles – Stevens
Stevens’ titles are wonders in themselves. Here are a few of the most maddening, funny and bizarre. The Paltry Nude…
“The Mind is the Great Poem of Winter” – Christopher Higgs on Stevens
“The mind is the great poem of winter”: My Thoughts This Morning On Wallace Stevens by Christopher Higgs I…