Index 503
compared to Frost, 167–94
“Ghosts as Cocoons,” 246
Harmonium, 244, 271–73, 461
“Hibiscus on the Sleeping
Shore,” 235
“Human Arrangement,” 134
Ideas of Order, 462
imagination, 242, 272–73
“Imagination as Value,” 272
“In the Element of
Antagonisms,” 238
influences of, 15, 98, 203, 427–28
influences on, 7–10, 22
“Invective against Swans,” 246
ironic pastoral, 111–42
“July Mountain,” 236
later poems of Stevens, 233–51
“Man Carrying Thing,” 119
The Man with the Blue Guitar,
462
“Metamorphosis,” 238
“Metaphors of a Magnifico,” 272
modernist style of, 11, 257,
277–78, 407, 418, 430
on Moore, 19
“The Motive for Metaphor,” 244
The Necessary Angel, 463
Notes toward a Supreme Fiction,
113, 132, 135, 177, 240
“Not Ideas about the Thing but
the Thing,” 248
“Of Mere Being,” 236
“An Old Man Asleep,” 235, 249
An Ordinary Evening in New
Haven, 14, 136, 233, 235, 240,
248–50
Owl’s Clover, 125, 134, 139
“The Paltry Nude Starts on a
Spring Voyage,” 27
Parts of the World, 463
“Pastoral Nun,” 240
“The Pastor Caballero,” 242
“The Plain Sense of Things,”
235
“The Poems of Our Climate,” 10
“Poem with Rhythms,” 7–8
“A Postcard from the Volcano,”
178
“The River of Rivers in
Connecticut,” 236
“The Rock,” 235
“The Sail of Ulysses,” 240
“Sea Surface Full of Clouds,”
123, 133, 272
“Six Significant Landscapes,” 272
“The Snow Man,” 169–70, 175,
270, 272
“Somnambulisma,” 235
“Song of Fixed Accord,” 247
“St. Armorer’s Church from the
Outside,” 238
“Study of Images II,” 243–44
“Sunday Morning,” 238, 272–73
“Things of August,” 234
“Thirteen Ways of Looking at a
Blackbird,” 272, 323
“This as Including That,” 112–13
“This Solitude of Cataracts,”
236, 238, 244, 246
“Three Academic Pieces,” 176
To Be Itself, 134–35
“To the One of Fictive Music,”
130–32
Transport to Summer, 233, 242,
244, 463
Two or Three Ideas, 113, 137
“The Ultimate Poem Is
Abstract,” 121–22
“The Well Dressed Man with a
Beard,” 9
Whitman’s influence on, 7–9
“The Woman in Sunshine,” 235
“The Woman Who Blamed Life
on a Spaniard,” 241