Editing Wallace Stevens (section)

===Early 20th century===
The initial reception of Stevens's poetry followed the publication of his first collection of poems, ''Harmonium'', in the early 1920s. Comments on the poems were made by fellow poets and a small number of critics including [[William Carlos Williams]] and Hi Simons.<ref name="Mariani, Paul 2016. Page 405"/> In her book on Stevens's poetry, [[Helen Vendler]] writes that much of the early reception of his poems was oriented to symbolic reading of them, often using simple substitution of metaphors and imagery for their asserted equivalents in meaning. For Vendler, this method of reception and interpretation was often limited in its usefulness and would eventually be replaced by more effective forms of literary evaluation and review.<ref name="Vendler, Helen 1969, p. 13">Vendler, Helen. ''On Extended Wings'', Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1969, p. 13.</ref>