Wallace Stevens, Musing the Obscure: Readings, an Interpretation, and a Guide to the Collected Poetry

by Ronald Sukenick

New York: New York University Press, 1967

 

This version of Musing the Obscure appears with the kind permission of the late Ronald Sukenick (1932–2004).

 

Preface | A Stevens Chronology | Table of Contents | Abbreviations | Concordance (on The Wallace Stevens Journal Website)

 

I. Wallace Stevens: Theory and Practice

i. The Reality of the Imagination; ii. Change; iii. Chaos and Order; iv. Ego and Reality; v. The Function of the Imagination; vi. The Function of Rhetoric; vii. Obscurity; viii. Genre; ix. The Fiction; x. "The center that he sought was a state of mind"; xi. The Importance of Stevens' Art

 

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