Wallace Stevens at Harvard

Related Links

• Wallace Stevens-- This page is part of a larger one called "Twentieth Century Poets." It has some biographical information on Stevens and some very good links. Also, a nice bibliography.
• Wallace Stevens-- This page was put together by Dr. Alan Filreis, a professor of English at UPenn. There's everything from chapters of books (mainly his own) to photographs, paintings, links, reviews and poems, all having to do with Stevens. A very large and well-connected site!
• Hartford Friends of Wallace Stevens-- This page has a small bio, a few writings and some interesting links.
• Estate of Mind -- Excerpts of Stevens' poetry with illustrations by Mark Napier.
• Life's Nonsense Pierces Us with Strange Relation -- Paper by Victoria Alexander published here. No links. Alexander discusses what she sees as Stevens' desire to make sense of "nonsense" while remaining true to the fiction of poetry. She sees Stevens undergoing a "willing suspension of disbelief" by not taking the desire to find mimetic representations of reality in poetry too far, and states what she sees to be Stevens' belief, that "pleasure is to be found in perceiving the meaninglessness of meaning."
• The Hartford Courant-- This site contains a long and informative biography concentrating largely on Stevens' "dual life."
• The Wallace Stevens Journal -- Published by the Wallace Stevens Society Press and maintained by John Serio President of the Wallace Stevens Society.
• Wallace Stevens Listserv -- A forum for discussion on Wallace Stevens and his poetry. Subscription info here.