Wallace Stevens : : A Celebration / / Frank Doggett, Robert Buttel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• VerfasserIn: Buttel, Robert,; Doggett, Frank,
• MitwirkendeR: Brazeau, Peter A.,; Ehrenpreis, Irvin,; Ellmann, Richard,; Hollander, John,; Kermode, Frank,; Lensing, George S .,; Litz, A. Walton,; MacCaffrey, Isabel G.,; Martz, Louis L.,; Miller, J . Hillis,; Pearce, Roy Harvey,; Riddel, Joseph N.,; Stevens, Holly,; Stevens, Wallace,; Taylor, Wilson Ε.,; Vendler, Helen,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1980
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1000
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (386 p.)

Honoring the centennial of Stevens' birth, this volume presents original essays by many of Stevens' best-known critics. Also included are 128 previously unpublished lines that appear in the poet's From the Journal of Crispin" (an early version of "The Comedian as the Letter C"); three endings composed for "A Collect of Philosophy"; the complete Adagia entries from Stevens' notebooks; and thirteen letters to business associate Wilson E. Taylor.Originally published in 1980.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chronology -- Abbreviations -- "From the Journal of Crispin": An Early Version of "The Comedian as the Letter C" -- From the Journal of Crispin -- "A Collect of Philosophy": The Difficulty of Finding What Would Suffice -- Three Manuscript Endings for "A Collect of Philosophy" -- Particles of Order: The Unpublished Adagia -- A Selection of Stevens' Letters to Wilson E. Taylor -- Of a Remembered Time -- Holidays in Reality -- A Trip in a Balloon: A Sketch of Stevens' Later Years in New York -- Wallace Stevens in England -- How Wallace Stevens Saw Himself -- Stevens and Keats' "To Autumn" -- The Ways of Truth in "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle" -- Strange Relation: Stevens' Nonsense -- The Sound of the Music of Music and Sound -- Dwelling Poetically in Connecticut -- Theoretical and Atheoretical in Stevens -- Toward Decreation: Stevens and the "Theory of Poetry" -- Metaphoric Staging: Stevens' Beginning Again of the "End of the Book" -- Notes -- Notes on Contributors