Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry and Prose has been edited by Frank Kermode, the author of, among other writings on Stevens, a fine little book published here in Grove’s Evergreen Pilot series as Wallace Stevens (1961), and by Joan Richardson, the poet’s biographer.[1] The volume contains the six published poetry collections—Harmonium (1923), Ideas of Order (1936), The Man with the Blue Guitar (1937), Parts of a World (1942), Transport to Summer (1947), and The Auroras of Autumn (1950)—plus four groupings of poetry: fourteen poems added by Stevens to the 1931 edition of Harmonium; twenty-five poems Stevens collected in “The Rock,” the final section of The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens (1954); twenty-nine poems written subsequent to The Collected Poems and here called “Last Poems”; and ninety-four uncollected poems arranged chronologically from 1898 (when Stevens was nineteen) to 1955 (the year he died). After three short plays (one in verse, two in prose) written in 1916 and 1917 comes expository prose: first, his 1951 collection of essays called The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination; then forty-nine uncollected essays, articles, translations, prefaces, responses to questionnaires, etc. Then come seven selections from the notebooks, including the famous aphoristic Adagia. Finally, there are five pages of journal entries from 1893 to 1903 and twenty letters from 1909 to 1955 that are either about poetry or to poets (e.g., Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, Allen Tate). As usual in the Library of America, there is a full