Fiction

Any work that includes events, characters, etc that are not real.
==Poems that include "fiction":==
The Comedian as the Letter C, iii: Approaching Carolina, line 72
A High-Toned Old Christian Woman, line 1
Asides on the Oboe, line 3, 4
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction, title, line 572, 573, 632
The Rock, line 36
From the Journal of Crispin, line 299
Owl’s Clover, A Duck for Dinner, line 662
Recitation After Dinner, line 54
Nuns Painting Water-Lilies, line 16
==Critical Connections:==
 *Holly Stevens, Letters of Wallace Stevens. Includes 47 occurrences of “fiction.” These include multiple references to the poem Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction as well as philosophical reflections, such as the following excerpt from a letter to Mr. Simons, dated March 29, 1943:
“One of the approaches to fiction is by way of its opposite: reality, the truth, the thing observed, the purity of the eye. The more exquisite the thing seen, the more exquisite the thing unseen” (444). 
 Multiple critical sources are available providing connections between Stevens and “fiction,” but the Stevens scholar must be selective and sort those that refer to the title of Stevens’s poem and those that refer to Stevens’s philosophy. 
Critics include:
*JN Riddel, “Wallace Stevens’ ‘Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction,’” Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature, 1961. Available through JSTOR.
*George G. Weinschenk, Wallace Stevens Dharma: “Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction” and the View from an Island Hermitage. Dissertation. Available through Proquest.
*Harold Bloom, “Critical Analysis of ‘Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction.” Wallace Stevens, 2003. 
*Thomas Jensen Hines, “An Outline of the Poetry of Being.” The Later Poetry of Wallace Stevens: Phenomenological Parallels with Husserl and Heidigger, 1976. 
*John Serio, Cambridge Companion to Wallace Stevens.