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Wallace Stevens is considered to be one of the most profound poets in the 20th century. He was a man with no boundaries who explored the contrasted aspects between concrete reality and human imagination. He was not a famous poet until his last book was published in 1954, a year before his death, although his first book was published 20 years before hand. Stevens is a great example of poets writing and taking material from their own personal lives and of those around them. Stevens was born in Reading Pennsylvania on October 2, 1879. He was from Dutch origin; the son of Garret Barcalow Stevens, a respected lawyer in the Reading area. He attended Lutheran church schools before going to Reading Boy’s High School where his mother taught for most of her life. He attended Harvard, there he started his writing career. He wrote for the Harvard Advocate, Trend, and Harriet Monroe’s Magazine Poetry. However he did not graduate instead he transferred to a New York Law school. “Mr. Stevens said that, poetry was his way of making things palatable ‘It's the way of making one's experience, almost wholly inexplicable, acceptable,’ he said” (http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/12/21/home/stevens-obit.html) Stevens fulfilled a life full of many new experiences, and he was always willing to accept them.
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