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| Introduction : Wallace Stevens and Elsie | 1 | |
| 1 | Courtship : July 1904-November 1908 | 26 |
| 2 | Engagement : December 1908-September 1909 | 98 |
| 3 | First years of marriage : New York, 1909-1916 | 280 |
| 4 | Travel separation : Hartford, 1916-1923 | 342 |
| 5 | Amassing harmony : 1924-1935 | 411 |
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KRISTINA NELSEN
reviewed The Contemplated Spouse: The Letters of Wallace Stevens to Elsie on August 18, 2015
The Contemplated Spouse: The Letters of Wallace Stevens to Elsie
"I wish I could give all my time to the thing, instead of a few hours each evening when I am often physically and mentally dull. It takes me so long to get the day out of my mind and to focus myself on what I am eager to do. It takes a great deal of thought to come to the points that concern me." (340)
Great insight into the mind of a idiosyncratic poet (idiosyncratic for several reasons, the one that most interests me being the fact that he had a demanding full-time job). Wanted to know how his relationship with his wife sustained him (or didn't). Probably should've read a biography first. Without her responses to his letters (she burned them), Elsie comes off as a rather inscrutable presence. But the narrative helpfully supplies that Stevens first idealized her, then gradually drifted towards other influences (at which point his letters taper off into--kind of fascinating--banalities about movers and the purchase of a grand piano). Lots of detail about New York City as it was at the beginning of the 20th century. Hard to imagine so much nature! Also being able to walk from Van Cortlandt Park to Connecticut...
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Add The Contemplated Spouse: The Letters of Wallace Stevens to Elsie, The Contemplated Spouse gathers in a single volume the 272 extant letters written by Wallace Stevens to the woman with whom he shared his life, Elsie Viola Kachel. Written over the span of twenty-five years, the correspondence reflects Elsie's evolving re, The Contemplated Spouse: The Letters of Wallace Stevens to Elsie to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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Add The Contemplated Spouse: The Letters of Wallace Stevens to Elsie, The Contemplated Spouse gathers in a single volume the 272 extant letters written by Wallace Stevens to the woman with whom he shared his life, Elsie Viola Kachel. Written over the span of twenty-five years, the correspondence reflects Elsie's evolving re, The Contemplated Spouse: The Letters of Wallace Stevens to Elsie to your collection on WonderClub |
