With its proximity to the cultural hub of New York City and its quieter suburban and rural landscapes, Connecticut was fertile ground for artists and writers in the period of Modernist movements between 1913 and 1979. Many of these cultural figures are well known through biographical and critical studies. Creative Places seeks to show how place played a significant role in creative work, and how in turn the artists and writers influenced communities in Connecticut.
Wallace Stevens
Poetry
1879 – 1955
Nationally significant Modernist poet.
- Biography/Description of Work
Wallace Stevens was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard, where he met students who would become prominent in the art world, and then New York Law School. He was involved with the art community at the time of the 1913 Armory show. He moved to Hartford in 1916, and spent most of his life working as an executive for The Hartford insurance company. He used the time during his walking commute to compose poetry. Recipient of the Bollingen Prize in Poetry in 1950, Stevens won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his Collected Poems in 1955.
- Sources view
- Sheoffeler, Nancy. The Private Poet of Hartford. Hartford Courant/Arts, p. 1,6, Sunday Feb. 16, 2014.
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