Wallace Stevens across the Atlantic

1. Introduction: The Lights of Norway and All That
Bart Eeckhout, Edward Ragg

Part I. Descriptions without Place: Ideas of Europe in Stevens

2. ‘The Switzerland of the Mind’: Stevens’ Invention of Europe
George Lensing

3. Stevens in Connecticut (and Denmark)
J. Hillis Miller

4. Stevens’ Europe: Delicate Clinkings and Total Grandeur
Robert Rehder

Part II. Beyond Staten Island: Stevens in Transatlantic Conversation

5. Stevens and the Crisis of European Philosophy
Charles Altieri

6. ‘Without human meaning’: Stevens, Heidegger and the Foreignness of Poetry
Krzysztof Ziarek

7. Early Christianity in Late Stevens
Justin Quinn

8. ‘The strange unlike’: Stevens’ Poetics of Resemblance
Josh Cohen

9. Stevens, Duchamp and the American ‘ism’, 1915–1919
David Haglund

10. Picasso, Cézanne and Stevens’ Abstract Engagements
Edward Ragg

11. Music and the Vocal Poetics of Stevens and Valéry
Lisa Goldfarb

Part III. Getting It Straight at the Sorbonne? Stevens’ Afterlife in Europe

12. Nicholas Moore, Stevens and the Fortune Press
Mark Ford

13. A Ghost Never Exorcized: Stevens in the Poetry of Charles Tomlinson
Gareth Reeves

14. A Poetics of Ignorance: António Ramos Rosa and Wallace Stevens
Irene Ramalho Santos

15. Reading Stevens in Italian
Massimo Bacigalupo

16. Coda: Ode to a Colossal Sun
Helga Kos

Keywords: Literature, Poetry and Poetics, North American Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature