Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens was an American modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Reading
- Educated at
- Harvard UniversityNew York Law School
- Awards
- 🏆 Bollingen Prize🏆 National Book Award🏆 Robert Frost Medal🏆 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore."
"In European thought in general, as contrasted with American, vigor, life and originality have a kind of easy, professional utterance. American — on the other hand, is expressed in an eager amateurish …"
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Timeline
1879
Born
Birth1955
Died
Death
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