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Article: Wallace Stevens's real world.(Review)
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- New Criterion
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- February 1, 1998
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Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry and Prose has been edited by Frank Kermode, the author of, among other writings on Stevens, a fine little book published here in Grove's Evergreen Pilot series as Wallace Stevens (1961), and by Joan Richardson, the poet's biographer.(1) The volume contains the six published poetry collections--Harmonium (1923), Ideas of Order (1936), The Man with the Blue Guitar (1937), Parts of a World (1942), Transport to Summer (1947), and The Auroras of Autumn (1950)--plus four groupings of poetry: fourteen poems added by Stevens to the 1931 edition of Harmonium; twenty-five poems Stevens collected in "The Rock," the final section of The Collected ...