Basic Info - Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens was a 20th century poet, born in Reading,Pennsylvania on October 2, 1879. He attended college at Harvard University and became a lawyer in 1904. While working as a lawyer for 12 years, he began to write poetry. After a few years of this, he published his first book in 1923. The poems inside this book illustrate just how imaginative he is with his writing. The way he fools around with words clearly shows what a great writer he is.