Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird Sources and ClassicNote Author

William York Tindall. Wallace Stevens – American Writers: University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1961. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.cttttxcd.2

Helen Vendler. From On Extended Wings: Wallace Stevens; Longer Poems. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1969. Excerpted on MAPS, University of Illinois: http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/s_z/stevens/emperor.htm

Beverly Maeder. From Wallace Stevens' Experimental Language: The Lion in the Lute. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. Excerpted on MAPS, University of Illinois: http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/s_z/stevens/emperor.htm

Kenneth Lincoln. From Sing with the Heart of a Bear: Fusions of Native and American Poetry, 1890-1999. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Excerpted on MAPS, University of Illinois: http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/s_z/stevens/emperor.htm