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ELINOR WYLIE (1885-1928) 1407
Wild Peaches 1407
Sanctuary 1409
Prophecy 1409
Let No Charitable Hope 1409
O Virtuous Light 1410
H. D. (HILDA DOOLITTLE) (1886-1961) 1410
Heat 1411
Heliodora 1412
Lethe 1414
Sigil 1415
POETS OF IDEA AND ORDER
WALLACE STEVENS (1879-1955) 1416
Peter Quince at the Clavier 1417
Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock 1419
Sunday Morning 1420
Anecdote of the Jar 1422
The Snow Man 1423
Bantams in Pine-Woods 1423
A High-Toned Old Christian Woman 1424
The Emperor of ice-cream 1424
To the One of Fictive Music 1425
How to Live. What to Do. 1426
The Idea of Order at Key West 1426
A Postcard from the Volcano 1428
A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts 1428
Of Modern Poetry 1429
No Possum, No Sop, No Taters 1429
The Plain Sense of Things 1430
Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself 1431
Of Mere Being 1431
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS 1432
The Young Housewife 1434
Tract 1434
To Mark Anthony in Heaven 1435
Portrait of a Lady 1436
Queen-Anne's-Lace 1437
The Great Figure 1437
The Bull 1437
Spring and All 1438
The Red Wheelbarrow 1439
This Is Just to Say 1439
The Yachts 1439
A Sort of a Song 1440
The Dance 1441
Raleigh Was Right 1441