Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Preface 7
3. Contents 9
4. PART ONE. An Anatomy of Specific Figures
5. Chapter One. The Two Minds of Wallace Stevens 13
6. Chapter Two. Figures of the Mind (Reason and the Imagination) 25
7. Chapter Four. Figures of Order 59
8. Chapter Five. Figures of Change 109
9. PART TWO. Structural Figuration
10. Chapter Six. Double Vision in Whole Poems 125
11. Chapter Seven. Peter Quince at the Clavier 134
12. Chapter Eight. Le Monocle de Mon Oncle 139
13. Chapter Nine. The Comedian as the Letter C 151
14. Chapter Ten. Credences of Summer 174
15. Chapter Eleven. Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction 179
16. Index to Figures 219
17. Index of Poems Cited 223
18. A Selective Bibliography 227