I suspect that most people who love Wallace Stevens’s poetry do so not because of the density of its philosophical and aesthetic thought, but simply for the humor and verbal music of his diction, for ...

Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) worked most of his professional life as an insurance executive, yet is considered one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, winning a Pulitzer Prize and two National ...

I went looking for traces of Wallace Stevens. They’re hard to find, even though he spent 39 years in Hartford, from 1916 to his death in 1955, and is considered by many to equal Mark Twain in literary ...

Readers familiar with the poet Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) might know “Sunday Morning,” an early poem that rejects biblical faith in favor of “divinity within,” or “High-Toned Old Christian Woman,” ...

Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) worked most of his professional life as an insurance executive, yet is considered one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, winning a Pulitzer Prize and two National ...