WRITER

Wallace Stevens

1879 - 1955

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Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was an American modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. Stevens's first period begins with the publication of Harmonium (1923), followed by a slightly revised and amended second edition in 1930. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wallace Stevens has received more than 1,043,408 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Wallace Stevens is the 3,279th most popular writer (down from 3,194th in 2019), the 4,168th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,202nd in 2019) and the 352nd most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.14

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Letters of Wallace Stevens
American Poets, Autobiography, Correspondence
1966
The necessary angel
Poetry
1951
Poems
American poetry
1945
The palm at the end of the mind
American poetry
1971
Opus posthumous
American poetry, Littérature américaine, Characters
1957
Harmonium
1923

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Wallace Stevens ranks 3,279 out of 7,302. Before him are John Brunner, Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh, Duarte Barbosa, Mariano Azuela, Willa Cather, and Joanna Chmielewska. After him are Mahmoud Shabestari, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, Licinius Macer Calvus, Juan Fernández de Heredia, Lucius Cornelius Sisenna, and Dámaso Alonso.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Wallace Stevens ranks 117. Before him are Vittorio Ambrosio, Shinobu Ishihara, Alan Gardiner, Friedrich Christiansen, Ion G. Duca, and Clemente Micara. After him are Joseph Canteloube, Benedetto Aloisi Masella, Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen, Alfred Abel, Beals Wright, and Philippe Gaubert. Among people deceased in 1955, Wallace Stevens ranks 94. Before him are Lloyd Bacon, Theodor Innitzer, Isaak Dunayevsky, Ahmad Qavam, Michele Besso, and Erwin von Lahousen. After him are Otto Gessler, Hans Hedtoft, Princess Elizabeth of Greece and Denmark, Sybille Schmitz, Helena Roerich, and Louis Leon Thurstone.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Wallace Stevens ranks 4,168 out of 20,380. Before him are Charles Francis Hall (1821), John D. Rockefeller III (1906), Horace Greeley (1811), John Lloyd Stephens (1805), Ansel Adams (1902), and Belle Starr (1848). After him are James Karen (1923), James Marsden (1973), George Andrew Reisner (1867), Kellyanne Conway (1967), Rob Marshall (1960), and Stan Winston (1946).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Wallace Stevens ranks 352. Before him are Peter Benchley (1940), Hubert Selby Jr. (1928), Mickey Spillane (1918), Edward Bellamy (1850), Gregory Benford (1941), and Willa Cather (1873). After him are Douglas Preston (1956), Robert McKee (1941), Morgan Robertson (1861), Rose Wilder Lane (1886), Fanny Crosby (1820), and Spencer Johnson (1938).

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