The Man With the Blue Guitar by Wallace Stevens

The Man with the Blue Guitar is the name of a book of poetry by American poet Wallace Stevens in 1943. It is also the name of the title poem in that book.

The poem "The Man with the Blue Guitar" is a long poem of 33 parts in four beat accentual verse.

The book is often seen as the beginning of a new phase in Stevens's career. The Poetry Foundation says of it: "The Man with the Blue Guitar, particularly the thirty-three-part title poem, constituted a breakthrough for Stevens by indicating a new direction: an inexhaustive articulation of the imagination as the supreme perception and of poetry as the supreme fiction." The Foundation quotes literary critic Harold Bloom: ""The poet who had written The Man with the Blue Guitar had weathered his long crisis, and at fifty-eight was ready to begin again."