Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens
2 October, 1879 – 2 August, 1955- Books
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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 a lawyer for an insurance company in Connecticut.
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Wallace Stevens is celebrated as a major figure in American Modernist poetry, known for his philosophical and abstract explorations of imagination, reality, and the role of art. His work often delves into the interplay between the mind and the world.
Wallace Stevens received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1955 for his "Collected Poems." He also won the National Book Award for Poetry twice, first in 1950 for "The Auroras of Autumn" and again in 1955 for "Collected Poems."
New readers often begin with "Harmonium," his first major collection, which introduces many of his characteristic themes and poetic styles. "The Collected Poems" offers a comprehensive overview of his entire body of work.