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  1. PREFACE
  2. CONTENTS
  3. Blanche McCarthy
  4. Cy Est Pourtraicte, Madame Ste Ursule, et Les Unze Mille Vierges
  5. Tea
  6. Sunday Morning
  7. Peter Quince at the Clavier
  8. The Silver Plough-Boy
  9. Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock
  10. For an Old Woman in a Wig
  11. Domination of Black
  12. Six Significant Landscapes
  13. Inscription for a Monument
  14. The Worms at Heaven’s Gate
  15. In the Carolinas
  16. Indian River
  17. To the Roaring Wind
  18. Valley Candle
  19. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
  20. The Plot against the Giant
  21. Gray Room
  22. Bowl, Cat and Broomstick
  23. The Death of a Soldier
  24. Metaphors of a Magnifico
  25. Depression before Spring
  26. Earthy Anecdote
  27. The Apostrophe to Vincentine
  28. Nuances of a Theme by Williams
  29. Le Monocle de Mon Oncle
  30. Nomad Exquisite
  31. Life Is Motion
  32. Banal Sojourn
  33. Anecdote of the Jar
  34. Fabliau of Florida
  35. Ploughing on Sunday
  36. The Place of the Solitaires
  37. The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage
  38. Infanta Marina
  39. Cortège for Rosenbloom
  40. The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad
  41. The Doctor of Geneva
  42. Gubbinal
  43. The Snow Man
  44. Tea at the Palaz of Hoon
  45. Another Weeping Woman
  46. On the Manner of Addressing Clouds
  47. Of Heaven Considered as a Tomb
  48. The Bird with the Coppery, Keen Claws
  49. The Comedian as the Letter C
  50. Bantams in Pine-Woods
  51. The Ordinary Women
  52. A High-Toned Old Christian Woman
  53. O Florida, Venereal Soil
  54. The Emperor of Ice-Cream
  55. Hymn from a Watermelon Pavilion
  56. Stars at Tallapoosa
  57. Floral Decoration for Bananas
  58. To the One of Fictive Music
  59. Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks
  60. Two Figures in Dense Violet Light
  61. The Virgin Carrying a Lantern
  62. Academic Discourse at Havana
  63. Sea Surface Full of Clouds
  64. The Sun This March
  65. Lunar Paraphrase
  66. Anatomy of Monotony
  67. Autumn Refrain
  68. The Brave Man
  69. A Fading of the Sun
  70. The Pleasures of Merely Circulating
  71. The Idea of Order at Key West
  72. Lions in Sweden
  73. Evening Without Angels
  74. The Reader
  75. Like Decorations in a Nigger Cemetery
  76. Re-statement of Romance
  77. Lytton Strachey, Also, Enters into Heaven
  78. Sailing after Lunch
  79. Waving Adieu, Adieu, Adieu
  80. The American Sublime
  81. Mozart, 1935
  82. Sad Strains of a Gay Waltz
  83. Dance of the Macabre Mice
  84. Anglais Mort à Florence
  85. Some Friends from Pascagoula
  86. Mr. Burnshaw and the Statue
  87. Farewell to Florida
  88. A Postcard from the Volcano
  89. Ghosts as Cocoons
  90. The Men That Are Falling
  91. A Thought Revolved
  92. The Man with the Blue Guitar
  93. A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts
  94. United Dames of America
  95. The Dwarf
  96. Loneliness in Jersey City
  97. Anything Is Beautiful if You Say It Is
  98. A Weak Mind in the Mountains
  99. Parochial Theme
  100. Poetry Is a Destructive Force
  101. The Poems of Our Climate
  102. Study of Two Pears
  103. The Glass of Water
  104. Add This to Rhetoric
  105. Dry Loaf
  106. The Man on the Dump
  107. On the Road Home
  108. The Latest Freed Man
  109. Connoisseur of Chaos
  110. The Sense of the Sleight-of-Hand Man
  111. Of Hartford in a Purple Light
  112. Variations on a Summer Day
  113. Man and Bottle
  114. Of Modern Poetry
  115. Arrival at the Waldorf
  116. Landscape with Boat
  117. Extracts from Addresses to the Academy of Fine Ideas
  118. Of Bright & Blue Birds & the Gala Sun
  119. Mrs. Alfred Uruguay
  120. Asides on the Oboe
  121. Poem with Rhythms
  122. The Well Dressed Man with a Beard
  123. Montrachet-le-Jardin
  124. Metamorphosis
  125. Phosphor Reading by His Own Light
  126. Jumbo
  127. Poem Written at Morning
  128. Oak Leaves Are Hands
  129. Examination of the Hero in a Time of War
  130. [Prose statement on the poetry of war]
  131. Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction
  132. God Is Good. It Is a Beautiful Night
  133. Certain Phenomena of Sound
  134. Dutch Graves in Bucks County
  135. The Motive for Metaphor
  136. Chocorua to its Neighbor
  137. So-And-So Reclining on Her Couch
  138. No Possum, No Sop, No Taters
  139. The Lack of Repose
  140. Somnambulisma
  141. The Creations of Sound
  142. Esthétique du Mal
  143. The Bed of Old John Zeller
  144. Less and Less Human, O Savage Spirit
  145. The Pure Good of Theory
  146. Paisant Chronicle
  147. Flyer’s Fall
  148. Description without Place
  149. Thinking of a Relation between the Images of Metaphors
  150. Chaos in Motion and Not in Motion
  151. The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm
  152. Late Hymn from the Myrrh-Mountain
  153. Man Carrying Thing
  154. Men Made out of Words
  155. A Woman Sings a Song for a Soldier Come Home
  156. The Good Man Has No Shape
  157. From the Packet of Anacharsis
  158. The Dove in the Belly
  159. Mountains Covered with Cats
  160. The Prejudice Against the Past
  161. Credences of Summer
  162. A Pastoral Nun
  163. Two Versions of the Same Poem
  164. Someone Puts a Pineapple Together
  165. Of Ideal Time and Choice
  166. The Ultimate Poem Is Abstract
  167. The Owl in the Sarcophagus
  168. The Auroras of Autumn
  169. A Primitive Like an Orb
  170. Large Red Man Reading
  171. This Solitude of Cataracts
  172. In a Bad Time
  173. Metaphor as Degeneration
  174. Our Stars Come from Ireland
  175. World Without Peculiarity
  176. The Woman in Sunshine
  177. Imago
  178. Saint John and the Back-Ache
  179. Puella Parvula
  180. An Ordinary Evening in New Haven
  181. The Old Lutheran Bells at Home
  182. Questions Are Remarks
  183. Angel Surrounded by Paysans
  184. Things of August
  185. As at a Theatre
  186. The Rock
  187. A Discovery of Thought
  188. The Course of a Particular
  189. Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour
  190. Madame La Fleurie
  191. A Quiet Normal Life
  192. Long and Sluggish Lines
  193. To an Old Philosopher in Rome
  194. The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain
  195. Two Illustrations That the World Is What You Make of It
  196. Prologues to What Is Possible
  197. Looking Across the Fields and Watching the Birds Fly
  198. The World as Meditation
  199. An Old Man Asleep
  200. The Plain Sense of Things
  201. Lebensweisheitspielerei
  202. The Hermitage at the Centre
  203. The Dove in Spring
  204. The Planet on the Table
  205. The River of Rivers in Connecticut
  206. Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself
  207. The Sail of Ulysses
  208. A Child Asleep in Its Own Life
  209. On the Way to the Bus
  210. First Warmth
  211. As You Leave the Room
  212. Reality Is an Activity of the Most August Imagination
  213. A Clear Day and No Memories
  214. A Mythology Reflects Its Region
  215. Of Mere Being
  216. NOTES
  217. INDEX OF FIRST LINES
  218. INDEX OF TITLES
  219. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  220. WALLACE STEVENS

The Plot against the Giant

Gray Room

Bowl, Cat and Broomstick

The Death of a Soldier

Metaphors of a Magnifico

Depression before Spring

Earthy Anecdote

The Apostrophe to Vincentine

Nuances of a Theme by Williams

Le Monocle de Mon Oncle

Nomad Exquisite

Life Is Motion

Banal Sojourn

Anecdote of the Jar

Fabliau of Florida

Ploughing on Sunday

The Place of the Solitaires

The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage

Infanta Marina

Cortège for Rosenbloom

The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad

The Doctor of Geneva

Gubbinal

The Snow Man

Tea at the Palaz of Hoon

Another Weeping Woman

On the Manner of Addressing Clouds

Of Heaven Considered as a Tomb

The Bird with the Coppery, Keen Claws

The Comedian as the Letter C

Bantams in Pine-Woods

The Ordinary Women

A High-Toned Old Christian Woman

O Florida, Venereal Soil

The Emperor of Ice-Cream

Hymn from a Watermelon Pavilion

Stars at Tallapoosa

Floral Decoration for Bananas

To the One of Fictive Music

Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks

Two Figures in Dense Violet Light

The Virgin Carrying a Lantern

Academic Discourse at Havana

Sea Surface Full of Clouds

The Sun This March

Lunar Paraphrase

Anatomy of Monotony

Autumn Refrain

The Brave Man

A Fading of the Sun

The Pleasures of Merely Circulating

The Idea of Order at Key West

Lions in Sweden

Evening Without Angels

The Reader

Like Decorations in a Nigger Cemetery

Re-statement of Romance

Lytton Strachey, Also, Enters into Heaven

Sailing after Lunch

Waving Adieu, Adieu, Adieu

The American Sublime

Mozart, 1935

Sad Strains of a Gay Waltz

Dance of the Macabre Mice

Anglais Mort à Florence

Some Friends from Pascagoula

Mr. Burnshaw and the Statue

Farewell to Florida

A Postcard from the Volcano

Ghosts as Cocoons

The Men That Are Falling

A Thought Revolved

The Man with the Blue Guitar

A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts

United Dames of America

The Dwarf

Loneliness in Jersey City

Anything Is Beautiful if You Say It Is

A Weak Mind in the Mountains

Parochial Theme

Poetry Is a Destructive Force

The Poems of Our Climate

Study of Two Pears

The Glass of Water

Add This to Rhetoric

Dry Loaf

The Man on the Dump

On the Road Home

The Latest Freed Man

Connoisseur of Chaos

The Sense of the Sleight-of-Hand Man

Of Hartford in a Purple Light

Variations on a Summer Day

Man and Bottle

Of Modern Poetry

Arrival at the Waldorf

Landscape with Boat

Extracts from Addresses to the Academy of Fine Ideas

Of Bright & Blue Birds & the Gala Sun

Mrs. Alfred Uruguay

Asides on the Oboe

Poem with Rhythms

The Well Dressed Man with a Beard

Montrachet-le-Jardin

Metamorphosis

Phosphor Reading by His Own Light

Jumbo

Poem Written at Morning

Oak Leaves Are Hands

Examination of the Hero in a Time of War

[Prose statement on the poetry of war]

Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction

God Is Good. It Is a Beautiful Night

Certain Phenomena of Sound

Dutch Graves in Bucks County

The Motive for Metaphor

Chocorua to Its Neighbor