In the introduction it gets into the importance of modernism dealing with the literary movement. Modernism was a movement in art that takes it away from its original form. Wallace Stevens one to go against the normal while being a late bloomer to writing he was a modernist poet who rather “the supreme fiction” which I took as he rather it flow like a stream of consciousness than the basic objective of reality. Wallace Stevens was born on October 2, 1879 in Reading,Pennsylvania. Stevens was educated at Harvard Law to later finish up at New York School of Law. Stevens Stevens worked as an insurance executive for most of his life at a company in Hartford, Connecticut. Wallace Stevens first publication and writing period was in 1923 with a collection of poems in Harmonium. Stevens was perfect during this time period he personally had a mine of his own.

Ezra Pound modern poet was born October 30, 1885 in Idaho. Pounds muse was Imagism so much in fact he help shape the work of other poets such as Ernest Hemingway, Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot and others. Pound worked in London during the early 20th century as foreign editor of several American literary magazines. In 1908 , Pounds first publication and book was A Lume Spento which opened up the doors for the Ezra Pound we know today .