Wallace Stevens - A Dual Life as Poet and Insurance Executive - A Biography by Alison Johnson
 
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1   Family Background and Boyhood   1
Chapter 2  Harvard Years 9
Chapter 3 A Fledgling Journalist 27
Chapter 4 A Romantic Encounter for a Young Lawyer 38
Chapter 5 Attitudes Toward Religion and Nature 44
Chapter 6  Falling in Love with Elsie Moll 52
Chapter 7 A Long Courtship 68
Chapter 8 Marriage at Last 80
Chapter 9 Sybil Gage as Secret Muse 89
Chapter 10 Work as an Insurance Executive 125
Chapter 11 Fascination with Florida  136
Chapter 12  Publication of Harmonium 149
Chapter 13 A Home of His Own 161
Chapter 14  Growing Success as a Poet 176
Chapter 15 Living with a Failed Marriage 196
Chapter 16 Friendship with Henry Church 217
Chapter 17 Holly Drops Out of Vassar 226
Chapter 18 Fascination with Genealogy  236
Chapter 19 Poetic Theory Explored 242
Chapter 20 Life Winding Down 250
Chapter 21 Prizes and Honorary Degrees 265
Notes   277
Bibliography   311
Acknowledgments   320
Index   322