“So that’s life then: things as they are?”: Wallace Stevens and Visual Art

A major American poet of the 20th century, Wallace Stevens held a law degree and was vice president of a leading insurance company. Alongside this successful career and the practicalities of insurance, his poetry sought the “supreme fiction,” a formulation of beliefs accommodated to the contemporary world. My project examines the interdisciplinary aspects of his quest. He often portrayed painting and poetry as analogous and jointly derived from the imagination, Read More…