Inky Pilgrimage
Mark Ford, 24 May 2007
The Contemplated Spouse: The Letters of Wallace Stevens to Elsie
edited by Donald Blount.
South Carolina, 430 pp., £30.95, January 2006,1 57003 248 3 Show More
edited by Donald Blount.
South Carolina, 430 pp., £30.95, January 2006,
“... I am convinced,’ wrote Henry Church to the poet who had just dedicated to him his longest poem, ‘Notes toward a Supreme Fiction’, ‘that Mrs Stevens has had an important part to play in the poetry of Wallace Stevens.’ This was in 1943, by which time Mr and Mrs Stevens had been living together in marital discord for more than a third of a century ... ”
