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	Wallace Stevens
		Wallace Stevens was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, as the son of Garrett Barcalow Stevens, a prosperous country lawyer.
		Before his marriage, Stevens had declared Elsie that he did not desire money, but at Harford their financial situation was secured and some of the pressures in the marriage eased.
		In 1946 Stevens was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters, in 1950 he received the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, and in 1955 he was awarded both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /wsteven.htm (1157 words)

	Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - Wallace Stevens
		Wallace Stevens was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, on October 2, 1879.
		Stevens did not win the prize, but was published by Monroe in November of that year.
		Stevens moved to Connecticut in 1916, having found employment at the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Co., of which he became vice president in 1934.
	www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/124 (488 words)

	Notes on Wallace Stevens
		Stevens, with compatriots Williams, Eliot, et al, were, in their varied ways, obsessed with making language a hard, malleable material no less than clay or steel, and they wanted to write and elaborate upon images that didn't obscure the fantastic qualities of the world their language was supposed to be writing about.
		Stevens gave a poetry that centered around this, to which his last message might well be that we have Poetics that cast itself in perpetual awe.
		Steven's verses are with abstract ideas, subjects by their nature obscure and requiring rarefied terms and jargon to describe dimensions that don't readily lend themselves to streaming, concise captions.
	tedburke2.tripod.com /wallace_stevens.html (1178 words)

	Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Yet Stevens is one of the most apt voices to speak about the perfection, and the perfectibility, of the poem-- the supreme fiction in the writer's, and the reader's, lives.
		The well-known Stevens language magic has to be experienced, and since the poems are difficult, asking students to work on them alone, in isolation, is not the best tactic.
		Stevens often builds from historical and/or philosophical knowledge, expecting "fact" to serve as counterpoint for his readers' more imaginative exploits.
	college.hmco.com /english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/stevens.html (394 words)

	Wallace Stevens Biography
		Stevens was born in Reading, Pennsylvania on October 2, 1879, and died at the age of seventy-six in Hartford, Connecticut on August 2, 1955.
		Stevens became interested in verse-writing at Harvard, submitting material to the Harvard Advocate, but he would be 36 before his first work was published in 1915.
		When Stevens began to write poems with renewed fluency in the 1930s, he arranged for them to be printed in limited editions at the same time as trade editions were prepared by Knopf.
	www.famouspoetsandpoems.com /poets/wallace_stevens/biography (720 words)

	Wallace Stevens Biography and Bibliography at LitWeb.net
		Stevens largely ignored the literary world and did not receive widespread recognition until the publication of his COLLECTED POEMS (1954).
		Wallace Stevens was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, the son of Garrett Barcalow Stevens, a prosperous country lawyer.
		In 1946 Stevens was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters, in 1950 he received the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, and in 1955 he was awarded both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
	www.litweb.net /biography/324/Wallace_Stevens.html (972 words)

	Wallace Stevens, a Classic American Poet - Associated Content
		Stevens writes, “Death is absolute and without memorial, as in a season of autumn, when the wind stops...over the heavens, the clouds go, nevertheless, in their direction.” Stevens paints a clear picture letting you think of a windless sky with all the clouds moving in one direction.
		Stevens felt that to understand and to be able to analyze what he was trying to say, you would have to have a “mind of winter” and must have been cold for a long time.
		Stevens ends the poem with the following message, “For the listener, who listens in the snow, and, nothing himself, beholds nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.” He uses repetition at the end using the word ‘nothing’ three times in the final two lines of the poem.
	www.associatedcontent.com /article/9494/biography_of_wallace_stevens_a_classic.html (1282 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Wallace Stevens
		The poet’s role, for Stevens, is that of high priest of the imagination: it is the poet who “gives to life the supreme fictions without which we are unable to conceive of it.”
		Stevens, whose poetic allegedly anticipates the language of literary deconstruction, has more recently attracted the attention of New Historicists who attempt to redress received views of the man and the poet of as a mandarin connoisseur of chaos aloof from the events of his time.
		Before studying for the Bar in New York in 1901, Stevens dallied with journalism and lurked on the fringes of the city’s avant-garde artistic and literary circles.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4221 (579 words)

	Poetry: Wallace Stevens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Born in Reading, Pennsylvania, Stevens graduated from Harvard in 1900, worked for a year as a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune, graduated from New York University Law School in 1903, and practiced law in New York for twelve years.
		From 1916 to 1955, Stevens worked for the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company, where he was appointed vice-president in 1934.
		Stevens argued that poetry is a "supreme fiction" that shapes chaos and provides order to both nature and human relationships.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/poetry/stevens.htm (155 words)

	Review: Collected Poems by Wallace Stevens \| Review \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		The time may be ripe for Stevens in Britain, where his work has never quite had the appeal of Robert Frost or TS Eliot, in part because of its eccentric diction and formidable difficulty, both of which have been overemphasised.
		Stevens never quite overcame this tendency to write with mad inventiveness, drawing on ornate, peculiar diction, but one gets used to his manner.
		Stevens, indeed, redefines religion for the modern age, finding in the playful language of his reimagined world "the ultimate good", as he says in "Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour", a secular hymn of surpassing beauty and depth in which he suggests that "God and the imagination are one".
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,,1814984,00.html (824 words)

	Wallace Stevens - Sound Clip - MSN Encarta
		American poet Wallace Stevens often wrote about a traditional image or symbol in his poetry in order to explore the ways our imaginations are shaped by cultural symbols.
		In this excerpt from Stevens’s ”Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird“ (1923) recited by an actor, Stevens also plays with the meanings of the symbolic number 13, often read as a bad omen.
		Within the Western literary tradition of poetic forms the number 13 evokes the familiar 14-line sonnet, perhaps suggesting that there is a 14th way of looking at a flbird that the reader must find.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461565260/Wallace_Stevens.html (136 words)

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		Wallace Stevens was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, on October 2, 1879, the second of five children of Garrett Barcalow Stevens, a farmer's son, and Margaretha Catharine (Zeller) Stevens, the daughter of a shoemaker.
		Stevens was awarded the Bollingen Prize in Poetry of the Yale University Library for 1949.
		In April 1955, Stevens underwent surgery for diverticulitis, during which procedure it was discovered that he was suffering from an advanced case of cancer of the stomach.
	www.ncteamericancollection.org /litmap/stevens_wallace_pa.htm (715 words)

	Wallace Stevens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		For many critics, Wallace Stevens is the most 'Keatsian' of all 20th century poets.
		Stevens (1879-1955) was born in Reading, Pennsylvania; he attended Harvard University as an undergraduate, and received a law degree from New York University.
		Stevens was a disciple of the English Romantics, but he was also a wholly original talent.
	englishhistory.net /keats/stevens.html (467 words)

	Carol Hoorn Fraser - Wallace Stevens
		By the mid-Seventies, Wallace Stevens was the poet for her, though not in the same way that Van Gogh was the artist.
		Stevens mattered too much to her for her to want me trampling across his flower-beds, as I had done with Dylan Thomas, a poet she had particularly liked.
		One begins to see, finally, that almost everything Stevens wrote was grounded in his observation of the world: of the things around him, “for themselves” and in relationships to each other that revealed aspects of things—resemblances and correspondences—which a man with an eye less accurate and an imagination less acute would not have perceived.
	www.jottings.ca /carol/wallace.html (3443 words)

	Wallace Stevens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		For many critics, Wallace Stevens is the most 'Keatsian' of all 20th century poets.
		Stevens (1879-1955) was born in Reading, Pennsylvania; he attended Harvard University as an undergraduate, and received a law degree from New York University.
		Stevens was a disciple of the English Romantics, but he was also a wholly original talent.
	www.englishhistory.net /keats/stevens.html (467 words)

	Jacket 14 - Graham Foust on Wallace Stevens
		Noting that the “S” was written backwards, Stevens recalls that this particular letter was “a monster of difficulty” for him as a child, a description which anticipates a letter to his wife Elsie a few years later in which he ascribes the word “monster” to his body (176).
		Stevens, as is well known, will encounter much toil and trouble trying to reconcile his lives as a poet and a man of business — trying, that is, to adjust his I’s to each other.
		Stevens situates his writing not as if it were in a book, but rather as if it were a piece of his self, but only in the way that a voice is a part of the body.
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	The Dao of Wallace Stevens : August 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Stevens believes that, for a poet, imagination is the most important thing, yet if the poet’s imagination veers too far from reality, it loses its ‘vitality.’ In his view “It has the strength of reality or none at all.” (The Noble Rider and the Sound of Words’).
		Stevens must have known a great deal about winter, and had not a little of the ascetic in him, from the look of this poem.
		And Stevens’ allusions and synecdoches jar me awake from this dream of union with the poet, spurring me to seek greater understanding of this master of the inward state as it meets ‘the outer world’ in that zone Stevens' called 'the imagination.' The imagination I can experience for myself.
	knitandcontemplation.typepad.com /dao_wallace_stevens/2004/08 (3112 words)

	The National Book Foundation
		Stevens was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, the son of a country lawyer and a school-teacher.
		Stevens joined the American Bonding Company in New York, then left the City to take a position in the home office of the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Insurance Company in 1916, where he became head of its surety claims department and was promoted to Vice-President in 1934.
		Stevens was a man of mental authority and unflinching rectitude.
	www.nationalbook.org /dirletter_wstevens.html (654 words)

	Caterina Falcone: Wallace Stevens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		In his works Wallace Stevens explored the interaction of reality and the human perception of what reality is. Wallace Stevens is critically regarded as one of the most significant American poets of the twentieth century.
		Wallace Stevens enrolled at Harvard College in 1983, but he left Harvard without a degree in 1900.
		Wallace Stevens became vice president at the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Co. Stevens began to establish an identity for himself as a poet when Harriet Monroe included four of his poems in a wartime issue of Poetry.
	www.etsu.edu /writing/amlit2000/drafts/finfalcone.htm (672 words)

	Amazon.fr : Wallace Stevens Reads: Livres en anglais: Wallace Stevens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Wallace Stevens achieved international recognition as a master craftsman and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Awards.
		Trained as a lawyer and employed as an insurance executive, Stevens' reputation has flourished since his death, and he is now considered one of America's most significant poets.
		Stevens' poetry fights for control in a chaotic world, as demonstrated in "The Idea of Order at Key West," which is included in this collection.
	www.amazon.fr /Wallace-Stevens-Reads/dp/0694520535 (392 words)

	Amazon.fr : Wallace Stevens: Livres en anglais: Wallace Stevens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Insurance lawyer by day and poet by night, Stevens is known for his command of language and an abstraction he felt was necessary to provoke interest in his work by fostering a sense of mystery.
		In "The Idea of Order in Key West," Stevens writes about walking on a beach and seeing a girl singing to the ocean, and deciding it is her way of creating order out of chaos.
		Stevens is indisputably one of masters of modern American poetry.
	www.amazon.fr /Wallace-Stevens/dp/0553714902 (581 words)

	Wallace Stevens Biography and Summary
		American poet Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) was a virtuoso of language, a master of rhyme and verbal music, of gay and thoughtful rhythms, and of precise and exotic diction.
		Wallace Stevens was a successful lawyer and businessman, as well as an important p...
		Life and career Stevens was born in Reading, Pennsylvania and attended Harvard, after which he moved to New York City and briefly worked as a journalist.
	www.bookrags.com /Wallace_Stevens (283 words)

	Wallace Stevens
		There can be little doubt that the field of Stevens scholarship is well attended, and that many aspects of his life and work have been researched, from his biography to his influences, from his social and political milieu to the rather quaint practice of suggesting what his poetry might mean to us.
		Stevens is still important to us today because of the scope of his ambition and because his poetry concerns itself with issues and problems which cannot be separated from any poetic enterprise.
		Stevens’ work has very often been the pretext for the presentation of a particular critical agenda, so open is it to varieties of interpretive practice and commentary.
	www.saltpublishing.com /books/sscp/1876857803.htm (1205 words)

	Amazon.com: Wallace Stevens : Collected Poetry and Prose (Library of America): Books: Wallace Stevens,Frank ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Wallace Stevens is one of those rare writers who had a golden touch with words.
		But Stevens was a man of many talents -- there is a trio of one-act plays, erudite and a bit whimsical, and which have his usual thoughts on art and poetry woven into some of their passages.
		Wallace Stevens is known for his exquisite, lush poetry, but the full "Collected Poetry and Prose" shows just what an intelligent, cultured man he was.
	www.amazon.com /Wallace-Stevens-Collected-Library-America/dp/1883011450 (2472 words)

	Wallace Stevens : Poems and Biography
		Wallace Stevens was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, on October 2, 1879.
		Admitted to the U.S. Bar in 1904, Stevens found employment at the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Co. in Connecticut, of which he became vice president in 1934.
		Composing poems on his way to and from the office and in the evenings, Stevens continued to spend his days behind a desk at the office, and led a quiet, uneventful life.
	www.poetry-chaikhana.com /S/StevensWalla/index.htm (321 words)

	Wallace Stevens - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Wallace Stevens - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955), American poet, whose works deal mainly with the individual’s interaction with the outside world.
		Considered one of the most important American poets of the 20th century, Wallace Stevens created exquisite, vibrant poems that were often suffused...
	encarta.msn.com /Wallace_Stevens.html (121 words)

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