Literature

Wallace Stevens

Quick Facts

FactDetails
Full NameWallace Stevens
BirthdateOctober 2, 1879
BirthplaceReading, Pennsylvania, U.S.
DeathdateAugust 2, 1955
Place of DeathHartford, Connecticut, U.S.
OccupationPoet, lawyer, insurance executive
EducationHarvard University; New York Law School (LLB)
Period of Literary Activity1914–1955
Literary MovementModernism
Notable Works– Harmonium – The Idea of Order at Key West – The Man with the Blue Guitar – The Auroras of Autumn – Of Modern Poetry
Notable AwardsRobert Frost Medal (1951)
SpouseElsie Kachel (married in 1909)
Children1
Notable RecognitionPulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1955 for his Collected Poems
Significant Publications– Harmonium (1923, revised and amended in 1930) – The Auroras of Autumn (early 1950s) – Collected Poems (1954)
Famous Poems– “The Auroras of Autumn” – “Anecdote of the Jar” – “Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock” – “The Emperor of Ice-Cream” – “The Idea of Order at Key West” – “Sunday Morning” – “The Snow Man” – “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”
Ethnic BackgroundDutch and German descent

Wallace Stevens Books

Book TitlePublication Year
Wallace Stevens: Poems
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird1917
The Emperor of Ice-Cream1922
Harmonium1923
Sunday Morning
Anecdote of the Jar
Of Modern Poetry1942
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens1954
The Auroras of Autumn1950
Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock
Peter Quince at the Clavier
Gubbinal
A High-Toned Old Christian Woman
The Comedian as the Letter C
The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad
The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play
The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination1951
Collected poetry and prose
The Collected Poems: The Corrected Edition
Opus posthumous1957
Earthy Anecdote
American Poets: An Anthology of Contemporary Verse
Letters of Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens Reads
The Plot Against the Giant
The Poetry of Wallace Stevens
How to Live, what to Do
The man with the blue guitar
Theory
Transport to summer
Selected Poems of Wallace Stevens
Infanta Marina
The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage
Nomad Exquisite
Life Is Motion1919
The emperor of ice-cream, and other poems1922
Palace of the Babies
The Place of the Solitaires
Ploughing on Sunday
Collected poems
The Surprises of the Superhuman
The Apostrophe to Vincentine
Frogs Eat Butterflies. Snakes Eat Frogs. Hogs Eat Snakes. Men Eat Hogs
The Revolutionists Stop for Orangeade
Secretaries of the Moon: The Letters of Wallace Stevens & José Rodríguez Feo
The Worms at Heaven’s Gate
The Curtains in the House of the Metaphysician
The Bird with the Coppery, Keen Claws
Wallace Stevens Reading His Poems
Selected Poems1953

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