The Poetry Of Wallace Stevens

Wallace James Stevens was born on October 2nd, 1879 in Reading, Pennsylvania. His father, a lawyer, sent Wallace to Harvard as a non-degree special student, after which he moved to New York City and worked briefly as a journalist. From there he attended New York Law School and graduated in 1903. On a trip home to Reading in 1904 Stevens met Elsie Viola Kachel (aka Elsie Moll), a young woman who had worked as a saleswoman, milliner, and stenographer. After working for several New York law firms f