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II. Readings

"The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage" 

“Domination of Black"

"Le Monocle de Mon Oncle" 

"The Comedian as the Letter C"

"On the Manner of Addressing Clouds" 

"Of Heaven Considered as a Tomb" 

"The Emperor of Ice-Cream" 

"Sunday Morning" 

"Bantams in Pine-Woods"

"To the One of Fictive Music"

"Peter Quince at the Clavier"

"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"

"Anatomy of Monotony”

"The Idea of Order at Key West”

"Evening without Angels”

"The Man with the Blue Guitar”

"The Man on the Dump”

"Connoisseur of Chaos”

"The Sense of the Sleight-of-hand Man”

"Of Modern Poetry”

"Asides on the Oboe”

"Extracts from Addresses to the Academy of Fine Ideas”

"Dutch Graves in Bucks County”

"No Possum, No Sop, No Taters”

"So-And-So Reclining on Her Couch”

"Esthetique du Mal”

"Man Carrying Thing”

"Notes toward a Supreme Fiction”

"Large Red Man Reading”

"This Solitude of Cataracts”

"Saint John and the Back-Ache”

"An Ordinary Evening in New Haven” (in html)

"Angel Surrounded by Paysans"

"The Plain Sense of Things”

"Looking across the Fields and Watching the Birds Fly”

"Long and Sluggish Lines”

"Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour”

"The Rock”

"The River of Rivers in Connecticut”

"The Course of a Particular”

"Reality Is an Activity of the Most August Imagination”

"Solitaire under the Oaks”

"Local Objects”

"Artificial Populations”

"A Clear Day and No Memories”

"As You Leave the Room”

“Of Mere Being”

III. A Guide to Stevens' Collected Poetry

Selected Stevens Criticism