Born On This Day: Lawyer and Poet Wallace Stevens
Born OTD: Wallace Stevens (1879-1955).
Mr. Stevens studied literature at Harvard and also pursued earned a law degree from the New York School of Law in 1904 and practiced law for a while, then moving into the insurance business, and became quite successful, but also pursued his love of poetry. Among his most famous works are Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird and The Emperor of Ice Cream.
For more on Wallace Stevens, here’s a short bibliography.
Thomas C. Grey, Steel against Intimation: The Motive for Metaphor of Wallace Stevens, Esq., 2 Yale J.L. & Human. 231 (1990)
Thomas C. Grey, The Wallace Stevens Case: The Law and Practice of Poetry (Harvard University Press, 1991).
Daniel L. Kornstein, The Double Life of Wallace Stevens: Is Law Ever the “Necessary Angel” of Creative Art? 41 N. Y. L. Sch. L. Rev. 1187 (1996-1997).
Paul Mariani, The Whole Harmonium (Simon & Schuster, 2016).
Peter Schjeldahl, Insurance Man: The Life and Art of Wallace Stevens
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