Gathered Beneath the Storm: Wallace Stevens Nature and CommunityWallace Stevens (1879 1955) has been acknowledged by writers as diverse as Harold Bloom, Adrienne Rich and R. S. Thomas as one of the central poets of the 20th century. Justin Quinn offers a fundamental reassessment of Stevens's work and the connections it makes between nature, community and art. He engages fully with the recent wave of historicist criticism, and displays the shortcomings of this approach, not only for a reading of Stevens, but also