Wallace Stevens

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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:Poet
gptkbp:artMovement Imagism
Modernism
gptkbp:associatedWith gptkb:Hartford,_Connecticut
gptkbp:awards gptkb:Pulitzer_Prize_for_Poetry
gptkbp:birthDate October 2, 1879
gptkbp:bornIn gptkb:Reading,_Pennsylvania
gptkbp:burialPlace gptkb:Hartford,_Connecticut
gptkbp:children gptkb:Holly_Stevens
gptkb:Margaret_Stevens
gptkbp:deathDate August 2, 1955
gptkbp:education gptkb:Harvard_University
gptkb:New_York_Law_School
gptkbp:famousQuote "Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her."
"It is the mind that creates the world."
"The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream."
"Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake."
"The poem of the mind in the act of finding what will suffice."
gptkbp:genre Modernist poetry
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Wallace Stevens
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Elizabeth_Bishop
gptkb:Charles_Simic
gptkb:John_Ashbery
gptkb:Robert_Bly
gptkb:James_Merrill
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:French_Symbolism
Modernism
gptkbp:knownFor Imagism
Philosophical poetry
gptkbp:nationality American
gptkbp:notableFeature Contemporary poetry
20th-century literature
American_poetry
gptkbp:notableWork gptkb:The_Collected_Poems_of_Wallace_Stevens
Harmonium
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:Poet
Insurance executive
gptkbp:placeOfDeath gptkb:Hartford,_Connecticut
gptkbp:posthumousRecognition gptkb:National_Book_Award_for_Poetry
Fellow_of_the_American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences
Fellow_of_the_American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Letters
Poet_Laureate_of_the_United_States
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Elsie_Kachel_Stevens
gptkbp:style Free verse
Lyric poetry
Narrative poetry