Hitler, Adolf

German leader of the Nazi Party.
==Connections to Stevens:==
*Mentioned in several letters, though more as a point of comparison or reference. For example:
*February 7, 1942, in a letter addressed to Mr. Henry Church, Stevens compares Church’s heart troubles (angina) to that of Hitler, who has no heart. Stevens feels Church is better off.
*April 12, 1939, in a letter to Mr. Leonard C. van Geyzel, Stevens asks Geyzel to keep Buddha in mind, but that at the time with so much about Hitler and Mussolini, “it is hard to get round to Buddha.”
==A Sampling of Critical Voices:==
*Siraganian, Lisa. “Wallace Stevens’s Fascist Dilemmas and Free Market Resolutions.” American Literary 
*History 23.2 (2011): 337-61. Web. Project Muse. 10 March 2014.
*Beckett, Lucy. Wallace Stevens. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1974. Google Book Search. Web. 10 March 2014. Beckett connects Hitler, World War II, and Stevens’s poem Notes on a Supreme Fiction by reading the poem as a war poem.
*Logenbach, James. Wallace Stevens: The Plain Sense of Things. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1991. Google Book Search. Web. 10 March 2014. Logenbach discusses Stevens’s anxious reactions to the beginning of WWII. Logenbach lists several Stevens poems (“Martial Cadenza” and “Yellow Afternoon”) as being representative of American reactions to WWII of isolationism and interventionism.