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  • The snow man. An issue: Nirvana
  • An example: "The snow man"
  • Four types of mysticism
  • Meditative perception: "The course of a particular"
  • Meditation and Stevens' lyrics. The structure of meditative experience
  • The middle way: "A clear day and no memories"
  • The meditative Stevens: "The latest freed man"
  • The physiology of meditation
  • Self and will
  • Language, mind, and no-mind: "not ideas about the thing but the thing itself"
  • The tragedy of desire in "Esthetique du Mal"
  • Whence Stevens? Turn of the century
  • Yeat's Chatterji
  • Santayana's angels
  • Pound's Cathay
  • Stevens' readings
  • Stevens' walks
  • Overlooking nothing: the critics
  • The comedy of consciousness: Stevens' long poems. Fragments and change
  • Opus 130 and the politics of emotion
  • Four types of form
  • The comedy of consciousness
  • Postscript: Stevens, meditation, and modernism.