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Wallace Stevens
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Wallace Stevens was an American poet, journalist, writer, and playwright. Born in Reading in 1879, he was educated at Harvard University and New York Law School. He was a member of the Republican Party and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His professional writing career began in 1914, and he wrote in English.
Stevens received the Bollingen Prize, the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Award, and the Robert Frost Medal. His work is recognized in the Pulitzer Prize collection and the National Book Award collection. He resided in Hartford, where he died in 1955 from stomach cancer due to natural causes. His archives are held at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, as well as the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
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- Given name
- Wallace
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- Stevens
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- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Reading
- Place of death
- Hartford
- Occupation
- lawyer
- Educated at
- Harvard University
- Political party
- Republican Party (United States)
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Robert Frost Medal
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- Wallace Stevens, 1948.jpg
- Residence
- Hartford
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- 1879-10-02
- date of death
- 1955-08-02
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- stomach cancer
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- natural causes
- member of
- American Academy of Arts and Letters
- archives at
- Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
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- English language
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- 1914-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) 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.
Stevens's first period begins with the publication of Harmonium (1923), followed by a slightly revised and amended second edition in 1930. It features, among other poems, "The Emperor of Ice-Cream", "Sunday Morning", "The Snow Man", and "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird". His second period commenced with Ideas of Order (1933), included in Transport to Summer (1947). His third and final period began with the publication of The Auroras of Autumn (1950), followed by The Necessary Angel: Essays On Reality and the Imagination (1951).
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