The poetics of transition : Emerson, pragmatism & American literary modernism / Jonathan Levin. by Levin, Jonathan, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Life, transition, the energizing spirit -- Divine overflowings: Emerson's pragmatic idealism -- William James and the metaphorics of transition -- The aesthetics of pragmatism -- Santayana, Dewey, and the politics of transition -- Henry James and the drama of transition -- Gertrude Stein and the movement of words -- Wallace Stevens and the pragmatist imagination.…”
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Lyric poetry : the pain and the pleasure of words / Mutlu Konuk Blasing. by Blasing, Mutlu Konuk, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…The lyric subject -- The historical "I" -- The scripted "I" -- The body of words -- Four quartets: rhetoric redeemed -- Wallace Stevens and "The less legible meanings of sounds" -- Pound's soundtrack: "Reading Cantos for what is on the page" -- Anne Sexton, "The typo" -- Coda: the haunted house of "Anna."…”
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Last looks, last books : Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill / Helen Vendler. by Vendler, Helen, 1933-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: last looks, last books -- Looking at the worst: Wallace Stevens' The rock -- The contest of melodrama and restraint: Sylvia Plath's Ariel -- Images of subtraction: Robert Lowell's Day by day -- Caught and freed: Elizabeth Bishop and Geography III -- Self-portraits while dying: James Merrill and A scattering of salts.…”

R.S. Thomas : poetry and theology / William V. Davis. by Davis, William Virgil, 1940-

Table of Contents: “…Thomas and Søren Kierkegaard -- R.S. Thomas and Wallace Stevens.…”
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Very Little ... Almost Nothing : Death, Philosophy and Literature. by Critchley, Simon

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Contents; Abbreviations; Preface to Second Edition: As my father, I have already died; Preamble: Travels in Nihilon; Il y a; Unworking romanticism; Know happiness on Beckett; The philosophical significance of a poem on Wallace Stevens; Notes; Acknowledgements; Index.…”
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Modernism : a short introduction / David Ayers. by Ayers, David, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Eliot and modernist reading -- 'The waste land', Nancy Cunard, and Mina Loy -- Wallace Stevens and romantic legacy -- Wyndham Lewis : genius and art -- James Joyce : Ulysses and love -- D.H. …”

Glamour in six dimensions : modernism and the radiance of form / Judith Brown. by Brown, Judith (Judith Christine)

Table of Contents: “…Perception : Chanel no. 5, Wallace Stevens, the sublime -- Violence : Scott Fitzgerald, fascination, Katherine Mansfield -- Photography : Virginia Woolf, grammar, desire -- Celebrity : 1910, the extinction of personality, Greta Garbo -- Primitivism : Wallace Thurman, Nella Larsen, Josephine Baker -- Cellophane : Florine Stettheimer, Gertrude Stein, blankness.…”

Glamour in six dimensions : modernism and the radiance of form / Judith Brown. by Brown, Judith (Judith Christine)

Table of Contents: “…Perception : Chanel no. 5, Wallace Stevens, the sublime -- Violence : Scott Fitzgerald, fascination, Katherine Mansfield -- Photography : Virginia Woolf, grammar, desire -- Celebrity : 1910, the extinction of personality, Greta Garbo -- Primitivism : Wallace Thurman, Nella Larsen, Josephine Baker -- Cellophane : Florine Stettheimer, Gertrude Stein, blankness.…”
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Break, blow, burn / Camille Paglia. by Paglia, Camille, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…William Shakespeare, Sonnet 73 -- William Shakespeare, Sonnet 29 -- William Shakespeare, The Ghost's speech -- John Donne, "The flea" -- John Donne, Holy Sonnet I -- John Donne, Holy Sonnet XIV -- George Herbert, "Church-monuments" -- George Herbert, "The quip" -- George Herbert, "Love" -- Andrew Marvell, "To his coy mistress" -- William Blake, "The chimney sweeper" -- William Blake, "London" -- William Wordsworth, "The world is too much with us" -- William Wordsworth, "Composed upon Westminster Bridge" -- Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ozymandias" -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Kubla Khan" -- Walt Whitman, Song of myself -- Emily Dickinson, "Because I could not stop for death" -- Emily Dickinson, "Safe in their alabaster chambers" -- Emily Dickinson, "The soul selects her own society" -- William Butler Yeats, "The Second Coming" -- William Butler Yeats, "Leda and the swan" -- Wallace Stevens, "Disillusionment of ten o'clock" -- Wallace Stevens, "Anecdote of the jar" -- William Carlos Williams, "The red wheelbarrow" -- William Carlos Williams, "This is just to say" -- Jean Toomer, "Georgia dusk" -- Langston Hughes, "Jazzonia" -- Theodore Roethke, "Cuttings" -- Theodore Roethke, "Root cellar" -- Theodore Roethke, "The visitant" -- Robert Lowell, "Man and wife" -- Sylvia Plath, "Daddy" -- Frank O'Hara, "A Mexican guitar" -- Paul Blackburn, "The once-over" -- May Swenson, "At East River" -- Gary Snyder, "Old pond" -- Norman H. …”
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Selected essays of R.P. Blackmur / edited and with an introduction by Denis Donoghue. by Blackmur, R. P. (Richard P.), 1904-1965

Table of Contents: “…Cummings's language -- Examples of Wallace Stevens -- New thresholds, new anatomies -- The method of Marianne Moore -- The later poetry of W.B. …”

Break, blow, burn / Camille Paglia. by Paglia, Camille, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…William Shakespeare -- John Donne -- George Herbert -- Andrew Marvell -- William Blake -- William Wordsworth -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Walt Whitman -- Emily Dickinson -- William Butler Yeats -- Wallace Stevens -- William Carlos Williams -- Jean Toomer -- Langston Hughes -- Theodore Roethke -- Robert Lowell -- Sylvia Plath -- Frank O'Hara -- Paul Blackburn -- May Swenson -- Gary Snyder -- Norman H. …”

Improvisation and the Making of American Literary Modernism. by Wallace, Rob, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: WRITING IMPROVISATION INTO MODERNISM; CHAPTER 1 EZRA POUND: MUSIC, HISTORY, TIME; CHAPTER 2 LANGSTON HUGHES: "HOW TO TAKE THE IMPOSSIBLE AND MAKE IT DANCE"; CHAPTER 3 LISTENING TO GERTRUDE STEIN'S SAXOPHONE; CHAPTER 4 BANJOS, BLACKBIRDS, AND BLUE GUITARS: THE SOUNDWORLD OF WALLACE STEVENS; CONCLUSION; Notes; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Sixteen modern American authors ; a survey of research and criticism / edited by Jackson R. Bryer.

Table of Contents: “…Friedman -- Eugene O'Neill / John Henry Raleigh -- Ezra Pound / John Epsey -- Edwin Arlington Robinson / Ellsworth Barnard -- John Steinbeck / Warren French -- Wallace Stevens / Joseph N. Riddel -- William Carlos Williams / Linda W. …”

Agon : towards a theory of revisionism / Harold Bloom. by Bloom, Harold

Table of Contents: “…A prelude to Gnosis -- Agon: revisionism and critical personality -- Lying against time: Gnosis, poetry, criticism -- Catastrophe creation: Gnosis, Kabbalah, and Blake -- Freud and the sublime: a catastrophe theory of creativity -- Freud's concepts of defense and the poetic will -- Emerson: the American religion -- Whitman's image of voice: to the tally of my soul -- Clinamen: towards a theory of fantasy -- The sublime crossing and the death of love -- Wallace Stevens: a poem of our Gnosis -- Hart Crane's Gnosis -- Measuring the canon: John Ashbery's Wet casements and Tapestry -- John Hollander's Spectral emanations: the menorah as the white light of trope -- Free and broken tablets: the cultural prospects of American Jewry -- Coda: the American difference in poetry and criticism.…”

Everything else in the world : poems / Stephen Dunn. by Dunn, Stephen, 1939-2021

Table of Contents: “…A small part -- The lost thing -- Lucky -- Salvation -- My ghost -- What I might say if I could -- Emptiness -- Where he found himself -- The unrecorded conversation -- Time -- Replicas -- The soul's agents -- You'd be right -- Everything else in the world -- The land of is -- Postcard from Tortola -- Returning to the ravens -- Madrugada -- Inventing Wallace Stevens -- Critics -- Process -- How to write a dream poem -- Signs -- Moonrakers -- The telling of grandmother's secret -- Infatuation -- The kiss -- Summer nocturne -- Bad plants -- The slow surge -- At his house -- Cardinal cardinal -- I caught myself thinking the horizon -- Poker night in Tornado Alley -- No wonder -- Cut and break -- Explanations -- From the tower at the top of the winding stairs.…”

Poetic argument : studies in modern poetry / Jonathan Kertzer. by Kertzer, Jonathan, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Contents -- 1 Poetic Argument -- 2 Marianne Moore -- 3 Edward Thomas -- 4 Dylan Thomas -- 5 T.S. Eliot -- 6 Wallace Stevens -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y…”
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Collected prose / Robert Lowell ; edited and introduced by Robert Giroux. by Lowell, Robert, 1917-1977

Table of Contents: “…Ford Madox Ford -- Robert Frost -- Wallace Stevens -- John Crowe Ransom -- William Carlos Williams -- T.S. …”

Hart Crane / edited with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Table of Contents: “…Blackmur -- Hart Crane's last poem / Marius Bewley -- Hart Crane and Wallace Stevens / Harvey Gross -- The shadow of a myth / Alan Trachtenberg -- A new view of Hart Crane's bridge / Thomas A. …”

The work of poetry / John Hollander. by Hollander, John

Table of Contents: “…The work of poetry -- Originality -- A poetry of restitution -- What you mean by home -- Dreaming poetry -- The poetics of a preposition -- Hearing and overhearing the Psalms -- On A child's garden of verses -- My poetic generation -- Discovering Wallace Stevens -- O heavy verse! The shopwork of the workshops -- Whitman's difficult availability -- Arduous fullness : on Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- The poetry of nonsense : Carroll's quest romance -- A poem lost and found : Jean Ingelow's successful "failure" -- Meredith's poetry -- "Far space and long antiquity" : Trumbull Stickney's autumns -- Spoon River anthology : a late appreciation -- Marianne Moore's verse -- Modes and ranges of a long dawn : Robert Penn Warren's poetry -- Elizabeth Bishop's mappings of life -- May Swenson's massive panoply -- The scarred most sacred : some remarks on Geoffrey Hill.…”

The peculiar life of Sundays / Stephen Miller. by Miller, Stephen, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Sunday gladness, Sunday gloom -- Sunday in antiquity -- Sunday in Elizabethan and Jacobean England -- Sunday in eighteenth-century England and Scotland -- Varieties of Sunday observance : Boswell and his contemporaries -- The rise and decline of the Victorian Sunday -- Four American writers and Sunday : Edwards, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman -- Sunday nostalgia, Sunday despair : Wallace Stevens and Robert Lowell -- Sunday now : sacred and profane.…”
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