1 Stevens, Wallace, “Figure of the Youth as Virile Poet, The”, in the vol. Stevens, Wallace, THE NECESSARY ANGEL, Faber & Faber, London, 1960, pp. 39-67; here: p. 58.
2 Stevens, Wallace, “Two or Three Ideas”, in the vol. Stevens, Wallace, OPUS POSTHUMOUS, Alfred A. Knopf, NY, 1989, pp. 257 – 267; lecture held at Mount Holyoke College, on April 28,1951.
3 Stevens, Wallace, “Irrational Element in Poetry, The”, in the ibid. vol., pp.224-233; originally a lecture held at Harvard Univ., on December 8, 1936.
4 Stevens, Wallace, “Well Dressed Man with a Beard, The”, a poem in the vol. PALM AT THE END OF THE MIND, THE, a Vintage Book (Random House), NY, 1972, p. 190.
5 Stevens, Wallace, “Description without Place”, a poem in the ibid. vol., pp. 270-277; (here: p. 275).
6 Stevens, Wallace, “Connoisseur of Chaos”, a poem in the ibid. vol., p. 166.
7 Kermode, Frank, WALACE STEVENS, Faber & Faber, London-Boston, 1989, p. XVI.
8 Stevens, Wallace, Op. Cit., p. 381.
9 Stevens, Wallace, PARTS OF A WORLD, Alfred A. Knopf, 1942.
10 Stevens, Wallace, Op. cit., p.224.
11 Ibid.; italics mine.
12 Op. cit., “Extracts from Addresses to the Academy of Fine Ideas”, p. 178.
13 Ibid., p.179.
14 Ibid., p. 371.
15 Ellmann, Richard & O’Clair, Robert, ed., NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF MODERN POETRY, THE, 2nd Edition, W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 1973, p.281.
16 Stevens, Wallace, Op. cit., p.225; italics mine.
17 Kermode, Frank, Op. cit., pp. 57-58.
18 Stevens, Wallace, Op. cit., p. 226; italics mine.
19 Stevens, Wallace, Op. cit., p. 119.
20 Ibid., pp. 252 – 263.
21 Ibid., p.262.
22 Ibid., p. 257.
23 Ibid., p. 259.
24 Ibid., “Poetry Is a Destructive Force”, p.157.
25 Ibid., “Ordinary Women, The”, pp. 76-77; italics mine.
26 Ibid., “Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour”, pp. 367-368; italics mine.
27 Op. cit., pp.226-227; italics mine.
28 Stevens, Wallace, Op. cit., pp. 92-93; compare it to Emily Dickinson’s poem “A Light Exists in Spring”, in Brooks, Cleanth et al.,editors, MAKERS AND THE MAKING, THE, vol. 2, St. Martin’s Press, 1973, p.1246.
29 Stevens, Wallace, Op. cit., p. 226.
30 Stevens, Wallace, Op. cit., p. 174.
31 Ibid., p. 20; p. 35.
32 Lensing, George S., WALLACE STEVENS AND THE SEASONS, Louisiana State Univ. Press, Apr. 2001.
33 Shklovsky, Victor, “Art as Technique” in Lodge, David, ed., MODERN CRITICISM & THEORY. A READER, LONGMAN, 1992, pp.15-30.
34 Stevens, Wallace, Op. cit., p.227.
35 Ibid., italics mine.
36 Ibid., italics mine.
37 Ibid., italics mine.
38 Brooks, Cleanth, Op. cit., (see footnote 28), Vol. 1, p. 691.
39 Bloom, Harold, “Poetic Origins and Final Phases” in the vol. Lodge, David, ed., MODERN CRITICISM AND THEORY. A READER, Longman, London & New York, 1992, pp. 240-252; here: p. 241; italics mine.
40 Ibid., italics and capital letters printing mine.
41 Ibid., p. 241, italics mine.
42 Ibid., italics mine.
43 Ibid., italics mine.
44 Ibid., p. 244.
45 Stevens, Wallace, Op. cit., p. 97.
46 Op. cit., p. 733.
47 Baum, Frank, WIZARD OF OZ, THE, Wordsworth Editions, 1993, p.5.
48 Stevens, Wallace, Op. cit., p. 55.
49 Ibid., p. 119.
50 Ibid., pp. 96-97.’
51 Shelley, Percy Bysshe, “Ode to the West Wind”, in the vol. of Driver, Paul, ed., POETRY OF THE ROMANTICS, Penguin Books, 1995, pp. 40-45.
52 See note 42.
53 Shelley, P.B., “The Cloud”, in Op. cit., p. 60; italics mine.
54 Stevens, Wallace, “Poetry Is a Destructive Force”, (poem) in Op. cit., p. 157.
55 Bloom, Harold, Op. cit.; p. 247, italics mine.
56 Ibid., p. 248; italics mine.
57 Ibid., p. 248; italics mine.
58 Ibid., p 247; italics mine.
59 Ibid.; italics as quoted, capital letters printing mine.
60 Ibid. ; italics as quoted.
61 Ibid. ; italics mine.
62 Ibid.; italics and capital letters printing mine.
63 Ibid., p. 251, italics and capital letters printing mine. Harold Bloom gives here a full quotation of Wallace Stevens’s poem, BLANCHE McCARTHY
Look in the terrible mirror of the sky
And not in this dead glass, which can reflect
Only the surfaces – the bending arm,
The leaning shoulder and the searching eye.
Look in the terrible mirror of the sky.
Oh, bend against the invisible; and lean
To symbols of descending night; and search
The glare of revelations going by! Look in the terrible mirror of the sky.
See how the absent waits in a glade
Of your dark self, and how the wings of stars,
Upward, from unimagined covetts, fly.

64 Ibid., italics mine.

65 Bloom, Harold, WALLACE STEVENS: THE POEMS OF OUR CLIMATE, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1977.
66 Bloom, Harold, Op. cit., p. 252; italics and capital letters printing mine.

67 Stevens, Wallace, Op. cit., p. 228; italics and capital letters printing mine.
68 Stevens, Wallace, “Pure Good of Theory, The”, (poem in) Op. cit., p. 265.
69 Stallworthy, Jon, Cornell Univ., in an essay on Versification, in the vol. of Allison, Alex.; Barrows, Herbert; Blake, Caesar B. et al. – eds., NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY, THE, 3rd ed., W.W.Norton & Comp., Inc., 1983.
70 Stevens, Wallace, Op. cit., p. 228; italics mine.
71 Ibid., p. 229; italics mine.
72 Frost, Robert, in Baym, Nina et al., eds., NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE, THE, W.W.Norton Company, 1994, 4th edition, pp. 1101-1102.
73 Stevens, Wallace, Op. cit., p. 230, italics mine.
74 Ibid., p. 229; italics mine.
75 Stevens, Wallace, Op. cit., p. 270.
76 Ibid., p. 275.
77 Stevens, Wallace, Op. cit., p. 229; italics and capital letters printing mine.
78 Stevens, Wallace, Op. cit., pp. 51-52.
79 Ibid., p. 166.
80 Ibid., poem “Comedian as the Letter C, The”, p. 60.
81 Op. cit., p. 229; italics mine.
82 Kermode, Frank, Op. cit., pp. XVI-XVII: “The same attention to himself is evident in his buying another painting because it reminded him of a poem of his; his work was renamed <Sea Surface Full of Clouds>. We know now why the poem of that name meant a good deal to him; its writing broke the worrying drought after the publication of the first HARMONIUM, and occurred during a sea voyage which he took with his wife, passing through the Panama Canal – a rare adventure for Stevens. I don’t myself share the general admiration for this poem, but Stevens apparently did, so he found a picture to match it and commemorate the voyage that made it possible. It was the kind of thing he liked to do, and everything suggests that what he liked to do he did. A big man, a very sane man, undoubtedly a boss, he was very unlike Hoelderlin except in some ways he felt about the world, and of course in being a poet.” (Italics mine.)
83 Stevens, Wallace, Op.cit., “Anglais Mort a Florence” (poem), p. 117.
84 Ibid., p.92.
85 Melville, Herman, MOBY-DICK, Penguin Books, 1986, Chapter 42, “Whiteness of the Whale, The”, pp. 287-296; italics and capital letters printing mine.
86 Mann, Thomas, MAGIC MOUNTAIN, THE, Franklin Library, Pennsylvania, transl. from the German by H.T.Lowe-Porter, 1981, p.495; italics mine.
87 Stevens, Wallace, Op. cit., p. 230; italics and capital letters printing mine.
88 Ibid., pp. 230-231; italics and capital letters printing mine.
89 Stevens, Wallace, “Two or Three Ideas”, essay in Op.cit., p.259; italics and capital letters print mine.
90 Bloom, Harold, in Op. cit., p. 243.
91 Ibid., p. 247.
92 Baym, Nina et al., eds., Op. cit., vol. 1, 1989, p. 1459.
93 Op. cit., p. 279.
94 Op. cit., p. 1467.
95 Ibid.
96 Stevens, Wallace, “High-Toned Old Christian Woman, A”, in Op. cit., p. 77.
97 Op. cit., p. 231; italics and capital letters printing mine.
98 Ibid., p. 230.
99 Ibid., p.231; italics mine.
100 Ibid., pp.231-232, italics mine.
101 Ibid., p. 232; italics mine.
102 Ibid., p. 233; italics and capital letters printing mine.
103 Also praised in Sir Frank Kermode seminal study; see Op. cit., p. 17.
104 Stevens, Wallace, “Asides on the Oboe”, poem in Op. cit., p.187.
105 Stevens, Wallace, “Two or Three Ideas”, essay in Op. cit., p. 257.
106 Stevens, Wallace, Op. cit., pp.20-22 & pp. 35-36..
107 Stevens, Wallace, “Man Carrying Thing”, a poem in ibid., p. 281.
108 See our discussion of Stevens’s essay “The Irrational Element in Poetry” – in the former section of this chapter.
109 Stevens, Wallace, Op. cit., p. 258; italics mine.
110 Ibid.
111 Ibid., italics mine.
112 Ibid.
113 ibid., p. 259.
114 Ibid.
115 Ibid., italics mine.
116 Ibid., italics mine.

117 Ibid., italics mine.
118 Ibid., italics mine.
119 Ibid., italics mine.
120 Ibid., pp. 259-260; italics mine.
121 Ibid., p. 260; italics mine.
122 Ibid., p. 261; italics mine.
123 Ibid., italics mine.
124 Stevens, Wallace, Op. cit., poems: “Sailing after Lunch”, p.111; “The World as Meditation”, p. 381; “The Sail of Ulysses”, p.388; “A Mythology Reflects Its Region”, p.358.
125 Stevens, Wallace, Op. cit., p. 261; italics mine
126 Ibid.; italics mine.
127 Ibid., p. 260; italics mine.
128 Ibid.; italics mine.
129 Stevens, Wallace, COLLECTED POETRY AND PROSE, The Library of America, Literary Classics of the United States, New York, 1997, p. 661; all emphasis – italics, bold- & capital letters printing – mine.
130 Stevens, Wallace, Op. cit., p. 262; italics mine.
131 Ibid., p. 266; italics mine.
132 Ibid.; all emphasis mine (i.e., italics, bold- and capital letters printing).
133 Ibid.; italics partly mine.
134 Stevens, Wallace, “Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction”, a poem in Op. cit., pp.207-234.

135 Cuddon, J. A., PENGUIN DICTIONARY OF LITERARY TERMS AND LITERARY THEORY, THE, Penguin Books, New Edition, 1992, p.701.
136 Stevens, Wallace, COLLECTED POETRY AND PROSE, The Library of America, Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., New York, 1997, p. 912.
137 Ibid., p. 441.
138 Ibid., p. 388.
139 Ibid., pp. 175-252.
140 Kermode, Frank, WALLACE STEVENS, Faber & Faber, London, 1989, p.65; italics mine.
141 Volumes by Wallace Stevens: HARMONIUM in 1923; IDEAS OF ORDER in 1936; THE MAN WITH THE BLUE GUITAR in 1937; PARTS OF A WORLD in 1942; TRANSPORT TO SUMMER in 1947; THE AURORAS OF AUTUMN in 1950; THE ROCK in 1954; THE NECESSARY ANGEL (essays) in 1951; THE COLLECTED POEMS OF WALLACE STEVENS in 1954; OPUS POSTHUMOUS in 1957; THE PALM AT THE END OF THE MIND (Selected Poems and a Play, edited by Holly Stevens), 1967; COLLECTED POETRY AND PROSE, 1997.
142 The order of their composition as given in the volume WALLACE STEVENS – THE PALM AT THE END OF THE MIND, SELECTED POEMS AND A PLAY, Ed. by Holly Stevens, Vintage Books, Random House, New York, 1972.
143 Cuddon, J. A., Op. cit., pp. 251-252.
144 Stevens, Wallace, “Well Dressed Man with a Beard, The” – a poem in Op. cit., p. 224.
145 Stevens, Wallace, “Man Carrying Thing” – a poem in Ibid., p. 306.
146 Stevens, Wallace, “Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad, The” – a poem in Ibid., p. 81.
147 Stevens, Wallace, “Man with the Blue Guitar, The” – a poem in Ibid., p. 135.
148 Stevens, Wallace, “Men Made Out of Words” – a poem in Ibid., pp. 309-310.
149 Stevens, Wallace, “Men That Are Falling, The”- a poem in Ibid., p. 173.
150 Stevens, Wallace, “Connoisseur of Chaos” – a poem in Ibid., pp. 194-195.
151 Stevens, Wallace, “Of Modern Poetry” – a poem also belonging to the vol. PARTS OF A WORLD; here quoted from Ibid., pp. 218-219; italics mine.
152 In Ibid., p. 661.
153 In Ibid., p. 219; all emphasis mine – i.e. italics & bold printing.
154 In Ibid., p. 72.
155 In Ibid., p. 225.
156 In Ibid., pp. 184-186.
157 “The prologues are over. It is a question, now,
Of final belief. So, say that final belief
Must be in a fiction. It is time to choose.” (from Stevens, Wallace, “Asides on the Oboe”, a poem in Ibid., pp. 226-227; italics mine.)
158 Ibid., p.186; italics as quoted in the original text of the poem.
159 Ibid., p.185.
160 See Prof. Dr. Lidia Vianu’s Study in the vol. Eliot, T. S., WASTE LAND, THE, “Cartea Romaneasca”, Bucuresti, 2000, pp.79-86.
161 Ibid., p.7.
162 Stevens, Wallace, Op. cit, p. 185.
163 Ibid., p. 785
164 Ibid., p. 100; quoted from the poem “Sad Strains of a Gay Waltz”.
165 Ibid., p. 185; “The Man on the Dump”
166 Eliot, T. S., Op. cit., p. 8.
167 Stevens, Wallace, Op. cit., from the poem “Montrachet-le-Jardin”, p. 234; italics mine.
168 Ibid., “Well Dressed Man with a Beard, The”, p. 224; italics mine.
169 Jarrell, Randall, POETRY AND THE AGE, The Noonday Press, New York, pp. 3-27.
170 See “Reflections on Wallace Stevens” in Ibid., pp.133-148.
171 See “The Obscurity of the Poet”, “To the Laodiceans” and “The Age of Criticism” – all in Ibid., pp. 3-27, 37-69, and 70-95.
172 Stevens, Wallace, “A High-Toned Old Christian Woman” , a poem in Op.cit., p.47; italics mine.
173 Stevens, Wallace, “Two Illustrations that the World Is What You Make of It”, a poem in Ibid.,p.435.
174 Stevens, Wallace, “Two or Three Ideas”, an essay in Ibid., p. 850; italics both as in the original and mine.
175 Stevens, Wallace, “Montrachet-le-Jardin”, a poem in Ibid., p. 235; italics mine.
176 Stevens, Wallace, “Glass of Water, The”, a poem in Ibid., pp. 181-182.
177 Stevens, Wallace, “Esthétique du Mal”, part XI, a poem in Ibid., p.283.
178 Stevens, Wallace, “Poems of Our Climate, The”, a poem in Ibid., pp. 178-179.
179 Stevens, Wallace, “Lions in Sweden”, a poem in Ibid., p. 102.
* Italics mine.
180 Stevens, Wallace, “Esthétique du Mal”, a poem in Ibid., p. 286.
181 Stevens, Wallace, “Poetry Is a Destructive Force”, a poem in Ibid., p.178.
182 Stevens, Wallace, “Two or Three Ideas”, an essay in Ibid., pp. 839 - 850.