Editing Wallace Stevens (section)

===Early 21st century===
Interest in the reading and reception of Stevens's poetry continues into the early 21st century, with a full volume dedicated in the [[Library of America]] to his collected writings and poetry. In his book on the reading of Stevens as a poet of what he calls "philosophical poetry", [[Charles Altieri]] presents his own reading of such philosophers as Hegel and Wittgenstein while presenting a speculative interpretation of Stevens under this approach.<ref>Charles Altieri. ''Wallace Stevens and the Demands of Modernity: Toward a Phenomenology of Value.'' Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.</ref> In his 2016 book ''Things Merely Are: Philosophy in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens'', [[Simon Critchley]] indicates a refinement of the appreciation of the interaction of reality and poetry in Stevens's poems, writing: "Steven's late poems stubbornly show how the mind cannot seize hold of the ultimate nature of reality that faces it. Reality retreats before the imagination that shapes and orders it. Poetry is therefore the experience of failure. As Stevens puts it in a famous late poem, the poet gives us ideas about the thing, not the thing itself."<ref>Simon Critchley (2016). ''Things Merely Are: Philosophy in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens''. Routledge Press.</ref>