Voices & Visions: Wallace Stevens (1988)
57mJanuary 1, 1988
Richard P. Rogers
Director
Robert Seidman
Writer
Rate
Diary
Overview
The hero of Wallace Stevens’s poetry is the human imagination. Like Emily Dickinson’s, Stevens’s sedate and uneventful outer life concealed a lush and adventurous inner one. Such adventures were for Stevens not an escape from reality but a journey toward a new reality. Although Stevens was no philosopher–he was a bold and brilliant poet–he explored the workings of the human mind with a precision philosophers might envy.
