The Oxford Companion to English Literature | Stevens, Wallace
Stevens, Wallace
(
1879
–
1955
), American poet, born in Pennsylvania and educated at Harvard, where he met
Santayana
. He became a lawyer, and from
1916
worked at Hartford, Connecticut, on the legal staff of the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company, where he remained until his death, becoming vice-president in
1934
. Meanwhile, he had begun to publish poems in
Poetry
and elsewhere, and his first volume, Harmonium, which contains ‘Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird’, was published in
1923
. This was followed by other collections (including Ideas of Order,
1935
; The Man with the Blue Guitar and Other Poems,
1937
; Notes towards a Supreme Fiction,
1942
; The Auroras of Autumn,
1950
; Collected Poems,
1954
) which slowly brought him recognition, but it was not until his last years that his enigmatic, elegant, intellectual, and occasionally startling...
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