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WALLACE STEVENS
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) Born in
Reading
,
Pennsylvania
, Stevens attended Harvard and
New York
Law
School
. In 1916 he went to work for the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company, and
would remain there, rising to vice-president, until his death in 1955. Though
his first book of poetry, Harmonium, published in 1923, was well received
by his peers, Stevens felt discouraged by the reviews and wrote little through
the rest of the 1920’s. He didn’t publish new work until 1936 with Ideas
of Order. He received the Harriet Monroe Poetry Award in 1946, the National
Book Award in 1951 for The Auroras of Autumn, and in 1955 received the
National Book Award for The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens and the
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Although in later years he read his work at
Wellesley
and
Columbia
, Stevens turned down speaking requests early in his career, saying “I am not
a troubadour and I think the public reading of poetry is something truly
ghastly.”
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