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He read a General Arts course at Harvard, freelanced for a time as a journalist in New York, then qualified in Law and spent most of his life working as an insurance man. He excelled especially in sorting out defaults and bankruptcies, and did well out of the Depression of 1929.Stevens began his literary career as one of a number of Harvard undergraduates in the 1890s who sought to create an American poetry. Previous attempts towards that end seem to have been beneath their attention. An influential lecturer at Harvard in those days was George Santayana , who wrote a patronizing essay Interpretations of Poetry and Religion (1900) which adversely criticized 'the poetry of barbarism'; that is to say, the poetry of Walt Whitman (1819-92), with whom he associated Robert Browning (1812-89). There may have been a class-differential here, at least as regards Whitman. Instead, Stevens and his contemporaries looked to what was the dernier cri of poetry in those days, a series of English verse-writers most of them published in the USA by the firm of T. B. Mosher. These, in their turn, were derivative from the French symbolist poets boosted by the lectures, delivered in 1900 at Harvard and el

Author

Philip Hobsbaum

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9786611312527

Subjects

History, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction