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References
- Leggett, B.J. Early Stevens: The Nietzchean Intertext. 1982: Duke UP.
- Nicholson, Mervyn. "Reading Stevens' Riddles." College English, Vol. 50, No. 1. (Jan., 1988), pp. 13–31.
- Peterson, Margaret. Wallace Stevens and the idealist tradition. 1983: UMI Research Press
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