Wallace Stevens is not, at first glance, the kind of person normally associated with poetry. A corporate executive — he was chief counsel for one of America’s largest insurance companies — he fashioned a poetry that seems, at first, quite difficult and even obscure. But that is only at first encounter: Stevens writes lyric poems, […]
T.S. Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St. Louis and educated in the United States, but once he went to Britain to do graduate work in philosophy he remained in that country for the rest of his adult life. During the first half of the twentieth century he was widely regarded — both in the English-speaking […]
Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Bishop, born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1911, had a difficult childhood: her father died when she was very young, and while still in early childhood her mother was permanently hospitalized in a sanitarium. She spent her childhood years living with her grandparents in Nova Scotia, and with relatives in Massachusetts. Bishop attended Vassar College, […]