{"id":244,"date":"2025-09-22T18:50:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T18:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/?p=244"},"modified":"2025-10-31T15:05:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T15:05:58","slug":"wallace-stevens-biographical-and-critical-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/?p=244","title":{"rendered":"Wallace Stevens &#8211; Biographical and Critical Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Biographical Sources<\/h5>\n<p>Brazeau, Peter.\u00a0 <em>Parts of a World: Wallace Stevens Remembered: An Oral Biography<\/em> (Random House, 1983).\u00a0 [Contains interviews with many Hartford people who knew Stevens.]<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Mariani, Paul.\u00a0 <em>The Whole Harmonium: The Life of Wallace Stevens<\/em> (Simon and Schuster, 2016).\u00a0 [A very readable biography of Stevens.]<\/p>\n<p>Serio, John N. \u201cHartford, CT,\u201d chapter (pp. 27-36) in <em>Wallace Stevens in Context<\/em>, ed. Glen MacLeod (Cambridge UP, 2017) [A concise summary of Stevens\u2019s life and career in Hartford.]<\/p>\n<h5>Critical Source<\/h5>\n<p>Sukenick, Ronald.\u00a0 <em>Wallace Stevens: Musing the Obscure: Readings, an interpretation, and a guide to the collected poetry<\/em> (New York University Press, 1967).\u00a0 Available online under \u201cLinks and Tools\u201d on the website of the <a href=\"https:\/\/wallacestevens.com\/links\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wallace Stevens Society<\/a>.\u00a0 [A classic that remains useful.\u00a0 Sukenick attempts to clarify the meaning of individual poems. Use the Guide at the back of the book to look up the poem you are interested in.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biographical Sources Brazeau, Peter.\u00a0 Parts of a World: Wallace Stevens Remembered: An Oral Biography (Random House, 1983).\u00a0 [Contains interviews with many Hartford people who knew Stevens.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wallace-stevens"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}