The Letters of Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens. University of California Press, $29.95 (960pp) ISBN 978-0-520-20668-7
Six decades of correspondence by the bard of Hartford, Conn. (Dec.)
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Reviewed on: 12/02/1996
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