Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Wallace Stevens
- First Published: 1942
- Type of Work: Meditation
- Genres: Poetry, Meditation
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, Literature, Art or artists, Poetry or poets, War, Soldiers, Aesthetics
The Poem
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction, considered by many to be Wallace Stevens’s most important poem, did not receive much critical attention until the 1980’s. Regarded as long and unwieldy, the poem was overlooked in favor of shorter and more easily accessible poems until critics became aware that much current theory has its parallel in Stevens’s Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction. Contemporary notions of historicity, aesthetics, and even chaos theory can be read from this work.
The notion of the “supreme fiction” was a major preoccupation of...
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