Wallace Stevens - A Dual Life as Poet and Insurance Executive

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