Wallace Stephens (Stevens Wallace)

(1879-1955)
. Although his first book of classical harmony (Harmonium, . 1923) affected the excessive enthusiasm of the author challenges the purely aesthetic, . Collections man with a blue guitar (The Man with the Blue Guitar, . 1937), . Parts of the World (Parts of the World, . 1942) and Notes on the highest form of fiction (Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction, . 1942) prompted a new treat for his work, . and by 1955 Stevens was the winner Bollingenovskoy, . Pulitzer and two National Book Award,
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Stevens was born in Reading (pc. Pennsylvania), October 2, 1879. In 1897-1900 he was - a student at Harvard University, then studied at New York Law School in 1904 received a license to practice law. About a year worked as a reporter 'Herald Tribune', took part in the literary life of Greenwich Village. Had practice in New York. In 1916 he settled in the Hartford insurance company, in 1934 became its vice-president and held this position until the end of life. Stevens died in Hartford on Aug. 2, 1955

. Total Stevens has written seven books, . sostavishih his collection of poems (The Collected Poems, . 1954), . and a book of essays Necessary Angel (The Necessary Angel, . 1951); scattered poems, . play, . prose texts after his death, published in Volume, . entitled Posthumous Paper (Opus Posthumous, . 1957),
. Stevens' poems are lyrical meditations, which glorified the natural world, as well as himself 'the poet, this eternal conductor', a man opens the harmony in the chaos of life. Not being a philosophy of poetry, his poetry reflects a desire to understand what the relationship between the philosophical doctrines and poetic thinking. Stevens pointed out that his poems speak primarily about how to interact with reality and imagination - so he preferred to formulate the duality of being and consciousness. The world, or reality, no matter how rough and shackles, he appeared as any, remains to man the natural environment, gives him a sense of rootedness

. Commitment to the real world affects the nature of the development of the second dominant theme Stevens, . prompted by his conviction, . that man makes judgments about the world only by indirect evidence, . perceiving it through the prism of subjective interpretations,
. Although consciousness is actively functioning only thanks to the fact that it incorporates the physical world, this world is inevitably transformed, reflected in consciousness, and he was separated from the real world of 'things as they are'. That way things that is after the imagination translated 'simple view of the truth', there is a certain analogue of the real world. Masterpiece Stevens notes about the highest form of fiction is precisely substantiates the idea that people should always believe in fiction, because he is not given to get rid of their interpretations of reality.