Critically regarded as one of the most significant American poets of the 20th century. Stevens largely ignored the literary world and he did not receive widespread recognition until the publication of his COLLECTED POEMS 1954. Stevens explored inside a profound philosophical framework the dualism between concrete reality and the human imagination. Wallace Stevens was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, the son of Garrett Barcalow Stevens, a prosperous country lawyer. His mothers family, the Zellers, was of Dutch origin; she taught at school. Stevens attended the Reading Boys High School, and enrolled in 1893 at Harvard College.

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