Wallace Stevens is known to the contemporary world for his contributions to modern American poetry, with such intellectually complex and imaginatively transformative works as Thirteen Ways of Looking At A Blackbird, Peter Quince At the Clavier, The Idea of Order At Key West, and The Emperor of Ice Cream. Born in Reading, Pennsylvania, and closely associated with the city of Hartford Connecticut, where he led a quiet life as an insurance executive, his name ranks among such figures as William Carlos Williams, ee cummings and Gertrude Stein.


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