Wallace Stevens
American modernist poet and insurance executive whose lavishly rhetorical verse explores the imagination's power to create meaning. Harmonium and The Man with the Blue Guitar are central works.
Works
- HarmoniumPoetry collection exploring sensation, imagination, and the power of perception and language
- The Man with the Blue GuitarLong modernist poem meditating on how imagination shapes reality and artistic creation
- Ideas of OrderPoetry collection examining order, perception, and the imagination's relationship to reality
- Notes Toward a Supreme FictionModernist poem on imagination, change, and the creation of transcendent poetic meaning
- Transport to SummerLater poetry collection exploring summer, transformation, and the renewal of imagination