Wallace Stevens and Mahatma Gandhi share the same birthday.
| - Wallace Stevens |
Wallace Stevens was born on 2nd October 1879, in Pennsylvania. He passed out of New York Law School in 1903. A poet of ideas, Wallace Stevens began writing poetry in his teenager years. However, he was thirty four when his first poetry appeared in magazines. He took the pen name of Peter Parasol. Later, he wrote in his own name. 'Harmonium', his first collection of poems, was published when the poet was forty four years of age.
| - Whole Harmonium: The Life of Wallace Stevens |
Steven's poems were meditative and philosophical. 'The Idea of Order at Key West', was his next book. 'Collected Poems', appeared in 1954. Stevens also wrote nonfiction.
'Anecdote of the Jar', 'Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock', 'The Idea of Order at Key West' and 'Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird' are some of his famous poems.
| - Wallace Stevens |
Wallace Stevens was fond of the long poem, and metrical patterns. The Pulitzer Prize in Poetry was awarded to Wallace Stevens for his 'Collected Poems' in 1955.
A volume of critical essays,'The Necessary Angel', appeared in 1951. Wallace Stevens died on 2nd August 1955.
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