Wallace Stevens Biography

Wallace Stevens is a rare example of a poet whose main output came at a fairly advanced age. His first major publication was written at the age of thirty-five, though he wrote poetry as an undergraduate. Many of his canonical works were written well after he turned fifty. According to literary critic Harold Bloom, who called Stevens the "best and most representative" American poet of the time, no Western writer since Sophocles has had such a late flowering of artistic genius.