Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens was born in 1879 in Reading, Pennsylvania, the son of a lawyer. He studied at Harvard without taking a degree, then law in New York, and in 1916 joined an insurance company in Hartford, of which he became vice-president in 1934 and where he remained until his death. He composed while walking to the office each day, and his secretary then typed up his notes; his colleagues regarded his poetry as an eccentricity. He turned down a chair at Harvard so as not to leave the company. The Pulitzer Prize crowned his collected poems in 1955, shortly before his death in Hartford.

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• PoetryHarmoniumWallace Stevens · 1923LiteraturePublic domain