Despite Stevens's inclination towards abstraction and intellectualism in his poetry, his verses are considered by many critics as some of the best and most characteristic of 20th-century American poetry. Stevens felt "that the poet's purpose was to interpret the external world of thought and feeling through the imagination." (Poetry Foundation)
Songs & Song Collections BY Stevens
(entered to date)
- Before My Door (in O Florida)
- Music:
- Lee Hoiby
- A Child Asleep in Its Own Life (in Last Poems of Wallace Stevens)
- Music:
- Ned Rorem
- A Clear Day and No Memories (in Last Poems of Wallace Stevens)
- Music:
- Ned Rorem
- Continual Conversation with a Silent Man (in O Florida)
- Music:
- Lee Hoiby
- The Dove in Spring (in Last Poems of Wallace Stevens)
- Music:
- Ned Rorem
- Floral Decorations for Bananas (in O Florida)
- Music:
- Lee Hoiby
- Gubbinal (in O Florida)
- Music:
- Lee Hoiby
- Last Poems of Wallace Stevens - Song Collection
- Music:
- Ned Rorem
- Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself (in Last Poems of Wallace Stevens)
- Music:
- Ned Rorem
- O Florida
- Music:
- Lee Hoiby
- O Florida - Song Collection
- Music:
- Lee Hoiby
- Of Mere Being (in Last Poems of Wallace Stevens)
- Music:
- Ned Rorem
- The Planet on the Table (in Last Poems of Wallace Stevens)
- Music:
- Ned Rorem
- The River of Rivers in Connecticut (in Last Poems of Wallace Stevens)
- Music:
- Ned Rorem
