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Title: Highest Fiction Notes
Author: [America] Wallace Stevens
Translator: Chen Dongbiao
Douban score: 8.4
Press: East China Normal University Press
Publication year: March 2009
Number of pages: 402 pages
Content introduction:
Wallace Stevens is one of the most important poets in modern America. At the same time, he is also a very important poetry critic. In this collection of essays, Stevens repeatedly expounded his views on the relationship between imagination and reality, and discussed the relationship between art and nature.
About the author:
18791010.2, Wallace Stevens was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, USA. He studied at Harvard University and obtained a law degree from New York Law School. 1904 was employed by Hartford accident insurance company in Connecticut after being qualified as a lawyer, and 1934 became the vice president.
In June191411,Harriet Monroe of Poetry magazine published four of Stevens' poems in a special wartime issue. From then on, Stevens began to have another identity outside the legal and business circles. His first book of poetry, Organ, was published in 1923, revealing the influence of English romanticism and French semiotics, showing his aesthetic philosophy tendency, as well as a completely primitive style and feeling: unusual and dreamy, saturated with the bright colors of impressionist painting. Compared with other modern poets, Stevens pays more attention to the transformation ability of imagination. On the way to and from work, or at night, he conceived his poems. Stevens continued to live a quiet and peaceful life at his desk in the office.
Although he is now recognized as one of the major American poets in the twentieth century, Stevens was not able to publish his poems until one year before his death, and then he was widely recognized. His main works are: Concept of Order (1935), Man with Blue Guitar (1937), Notes on Super Fiction (1942) and Necessary Angels.
1955, Wallace Stevens died in Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
Stevens regarded writing as a purely personal interest, so he never returned to the literary world for life.
In modern American poetry, as a senior employee of an insurance company, he lives in a small town in Connecticut, far away from the literary and art circles in new york, but accidentally writes his name into the history of literature.