Sunday Morning | Critical Overview
Harriet Monroe, in her review of Harmonium for Poetry (the journal she founded), proclaims that readers breathe “delight . . . like a perfume” in response to the “natural effluence of [Stevens’s] own clear and untroubled and humorously philosophical delight in the beauty of things as they are.” All critics, however, were not as impressed by this volume. Joseph Miller, in his article on Stevens for Dictionary of Literary Biography, notes that the few critics who paid attention to the collection dismissed it “as a product of mere dilettantism.”
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