Although some critics have labelled him as 'the unprofessional poet,' Wallace Stevens was undoubtedly one of the great poets of America.His poetry is philosophical, yet he deals with his ideas in a concrete manner.One of the dominant subjects in his poetry is the confrontation between reality and imagination where the latter, as Stevens says, "enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the...
Although some critics have labelled him as 'the unprofessional poet,' Wallace Stevens was undoubtedly one of the great poets of America.His poetry is philosophical, yet he deals with his ideas in a concrete manner.One of the dominant subjects in his poetry is the confrontation between reality and imagination where the latter, as Stevens says, "enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the...