1. Wallace Stevens
By: Chelsea Goldston

2. Background Born in Reading, Pennsylvania on October 2, 1879
His dad was a lawyer
His mom taught school
Attended Reading Boy’s High School- then went to Harvard in 1893

3. Background Cont.
While at Harvard he wrote for Harvard Advocate, Trend, and Harriet Monroe’s magazine Poetry
His first play was called Three Travelers watch a Sunrise in 1916
He left Harvard without receiving his degree and enrolled in New York’s Provincetown Playhouse.

4. Major Works The Emperor of Ice Cream The Idea of Order at Key West
Sunday Morning
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

5. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the black bird.
I was of three minds,
Like a tree
In which there are three blackbirds.
The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds.
It was a small part of the pantomime.
A man and a woman
Are one.
A man and a woman and a blackbird.

6. The literary movement that he wrote in was modernism.
The period he wrote in was
He is known for his similes

7. His Family.. He was married to Elsie Viola Kachel from 1909-1955
They had one daughter Holly Stevens which was born on 1924

8. Influences
Emerson
Whitman
Wordsworth
Shelley

9. Influenced
Hart Crane
James Merrill
John Ashbery
Harold Bloom

10. Interesting Fact
1936 Winged Liberty Head dime with the profile image of Stevens’s wife, Elsie
In other words- her face is on the dime.