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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.
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culture · American poet (1879–1955) · poet · journalist · writer · playwright · poet lawyer · lawyer · also Wallace Stevens, Stevens
Born 2 October 1879 · Died 2 August 1955 · Q166835
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2026· 1 entry
2016· 1 entry
The Guardian: Sharon Olds wins $100,000 Wallace Stevens poetry award
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2012· 1 entry
The Guardian: Poem of the week: Pantoum in Which Wallace Stevens Gives Me Vertigo by Oli Hazzard
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2010· 1 entry
The Guardian: Video: AS Byatt: 'I don't believe in God. I believe in Wallace Stevens'
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2009· 1 entry
"Nobody from his family attended the wedding, and Stevens never again visited or spoke to his parents during his father's lifetime
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2006· 1 entry
The Guardian: Review: Collected Poems by Wallace Stevens
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1978· 1 entry
As "Where Spirits Gat Them Home", later collected in 1993 as "Her Bounty to the Dead", come from "Sunday Morning"
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1976· 1 entry
After discovering Picasso's etching techniques from Atelier Crommelynck, David Hockney produced a suite of 20 etchings called The Blue Guitar
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1955· 8 entries
Died 1955-08-02.
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Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1955).
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Awarded National Book Award (1955).
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“The poet is the priest of the invisible.”
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“Stevens pragnie oddać kontradykcje i antynomie świadomości, która usiłuje zgłębić świat, ale natyka się na niezliczone języki i nieprzejrzyste znaczenia.”
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The literary interpretation of his poetry and critical essays began to flourish with full-length books written about his poems by such prominent literary scholars as Vendler and Harold Bloom
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Was offered a faculty position at Harvard but declined since it would have required him to give up his job at The Hartford
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“Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.”
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1951· 4 entries
Awarded National Book Award for The Auroras of Autumn (1951).
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Won Robert Frost Medal (1951).
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For The Auroras of Autumn and in 1955 for Collected Poems
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“The Idea of Order at Key West”
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1950· 1 entry
“The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm”
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1949· 1 entry
Awarded Bollingen Prize (1949).
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1942· 1 entry
And represents a comprehensive attempt by Stevens to state his view of the art of writing poetry
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1940· 1 entry
Stevens made his final trip to Key West
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1932· 1 entry
Purchased a 1920s Colonial at 118 Westerly Terrace, where he resided for the remainder of his life
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1923· 1 entry
And republished in a second edition in 1930
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1919· 2 entries
After reading some of the poems that would make up Harmonium, "There is a man whose work makes most of the rest of us quail
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“There is a man whose work makes most of the rest of us quail.”
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1917· 1 entry
Stevens and his wife moved to 210 Farmington Avenue, where they remained for the next seven years and where he completed his first book of poems, Harmonium
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1916· 1 entry
Joined the home office of Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company and moved to Hartford, where he remained for the rest of his life
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1913· 1 entry
The Stevenses rented a New York City apartment from sculptor Adolph A
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1909· 1 entry
Over the objections of his parents, who considered her poorly educated and lower-class
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1904· 1 entry
Stevens met Elsie Viola Kachel (1886–1963, also known as Elsie Moll), a young woman who had worked as a saleswoman, milliner, and stenographer
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1903· 1 entry
Following the example of his two other brothers with law degrees
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1879· 2 entries
Born 1879-10-02.
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Into a Lutheran family of Dutch and German descent
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