Wallace Stevens

January 10, 2024
Poet

Quick Facts

Wallace Stevens
Full Name Wallace Stevens
Occupation Poet
Date Of Birth Oct 2, 1879(1879-10-02)
Age 145
Date Of Death 1955-08-02
Country United States
Birth City Pennsylvania
Horoscope Libra

Wallace Stevens Biography

Name Wallace Stevens
Birthday Oct 2
Birth Year 1879
Home Town Pennsylvania
Birth Country United States
Birth Sign Libra
Spouse Elsie Kachel

Wallace Stevens is one of the most popular and richest Poet who was born on October 2, 1879 in Pennsylvania, United States. Modernist poet renowned for collections of poetry such as The Auroras of Autumn and Harmonium as well as for such individual poems such as “The Emperor of Ice-Cream,” “Anecdote of the Jar,” and “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.” He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1955.

The poetry “Dry Loaf” was featured in a hit song by His poem “Dry Loaf” was featured in a song by Nick Cave..

He was born at Reading, Pennsylvania, he later moved to Hartford, Connecticut. He married Elsie Kachel in 1909.

Wallace Stevens Net Worth

Net Worth $5 Million
Source Of Income Poet
House Living in own house.

Wallace Stevens is one of the richest Poet from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Wallace Stevens 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

After attending classes at Harvard He graduated in Harvard’s New York Law School. He didn’t begin publishing poems until he turned 35 years old.

He was once involved in an argument with writer He once got into a fist fight with author Ernest Hemingway..

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Wallace Stevens Dating?

According to our records, Wallace Stevens married to Elsie Kachel. As of December 1, 2023, Wallace Stevens’s is not dating anyone.

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Facts & Trivia

Wallace Ranked on the list of most popular Poet. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Wallace Stevens celebrates birthday on October 2 of every year.

Why was Wallace Stevens important?

Wallace Stevens is one of America’s most respected 20th century poets. He was a master stylist, employing an extraordinary vocabulary and a rigorous precision in crafting his poems.

What was Wallace Stevens style of writing?

His late poetry is characterized by dense symbolism and intense concentration on philosophical questions , although Robert Frost and other critics (most prominently Randall Jarrell) have derided Stevens’ late tendency toward impenetrable and abstract verse.

What poems did Wallace Stevens write?

  1. ‘The Emperor of Ice-Cream’. …
  2. ‘The Snow Man’. …
  3. Anecdote of the Jar’. …
  4. ‘Sunday Morning’. …
  5. ‘Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird’. …
  6. ‘The Idea of Order at Key West’. …
  7. ‘Of Mere Being’. …
  8. ‘Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock’.

Was Wallace Stevens religious?

Francis Hospital in Hartford, where Stevens spent his last days suffering from stomach cancer and was eventually converted to Catholicism in April 1955 by Hanley.

What is the meaning of the poem the emperor of ice cream?

The Emperor of Ice-Cream’ by Wallace Stevens speaks on one’s inability to control death and ability to live a good life. The poem begins with the speaker asking that the listener fetch a strong man to roll cigarettes. There is some kind of celebration occurring.

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