The Man with the Blue Guitar

Name: The Man with the Blue Guitar
Author: Wallace Stevens

by Wallace Stevens

Long modernist poem meditating on how imagination shapes reality and artistic creation

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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.

More by Wallace Stevens

HarmoniumPoetry collection exploring sensation, imagination, and the power of perception and language
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