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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 Also included are 128 previously unpublished lines that appear in the poet's From the Journal of Crispin" (an early version of "The Comedian as the Letter C"); three endings composed for "A Collect of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.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright, Dedication, Quote
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. ix-x
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  1. Preface
  2. pp. xi-xviii
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  1. Chronology
  2. pp. xix-xx
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  1. Abbreviations
  2. pp. xxi-24
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  1. "From the Journal of Crispin": An Early Version of "The Comedian as the Letter C"
  2. LOUIS L. MARTZ
  3. pp. 3-29
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  1. From the Journal of Crispin
  2. WALLACE STEVENS
  3. pp. 30-45
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  1. "A Collect of Philosophy": The Difficulty of Finding What Would Suffice
  2. PETER A. BRAZEAU
  3. pp. 46-49
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  1. Three Manuscript Endings for "A Collect of Philosophy"
  2. WALLACE STEVENS
  3. pp. 50-56
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  1. Particles of Order: The Unpublished Adagia
  2. A. WALTON LITZ
  3. pp. 57-77
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  1. A Selection of Stevens' Letters to Wilson E. Taylor
  2. WALLACE STEVENS
  3. pp. 78-90
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  1. Of a Remembered Time
  2. WILSON E. TAYLOR
  3. pp. 91-104
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  1. Holidays in Reality
  2. HOLLY STEVENS
  3. pp. 105-113
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  1. A Trip in a Balloon: A Sketch of Stevens' Later Years in New York
  2. PETER A. BRAZEAU
  3. pp. 114-129
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  1. Wallace Stevens in England
  2. GEORGE S. LENSING
  3. pp. 130-148
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  1. How Wallace Stevens Saw Himself
  2. RICHARD ELLMANN
  3. pp. 149-170
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  1. Stevens and Keats' "To Autumn"
  2. HELEN VENDLER
  3. pp. 171-195
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  1. The Ways of Truth in "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle"
  2. ISABEL G. MACCAFFREY
  3. pp. 196-218
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  1. Strange Relation: Stevens' Nonsense
  2. IRVIN EHRENPREIS
  3. pp. 219-234
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  1. The Sound of the Music of Music and Sound
  2. JOHN HOLLANDER
  3. pp. 235-255
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  1. Dwelling Poetically in Connecticut
  2. FRANK KERMODE
  3. pp. 256-273
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  1. Theoretical and Atheoretical in Stevens
  2. J. HILLIS MILLER
  3. pp. 274-285
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  1. Toward Decreation: Stevens and the "Theory of Poetry"
  2. ROY HARVEY PEARCE
  3. pp. 286-307
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  1. Metaphoric Staging: Stevens' Beginning Again of the "End of the Book"
  2. JOSEPH N. RIDDEL
  3. pp. 308-338
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 339-358
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  1. Notes on Contributors
  2. pp. 359-361
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