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Wallace Stevens(1879-1955)华莱士·史蒂文斯 Life and career Born in Reading, Pennsylvania, Stevens was educated at Harvard University. He then worked as a journalist in New York City before attending New York Law School. Stevens was admitted to the bar in 1904 and in 1909 married Elsie Moll, who was also from Reading. In 1916 Stevens joined the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company, an insurance firm in Hartford, Connecticut, and he became a vice president at the firm in 1934. He worked there, despite his increasing success as a poet, until his death. Life and career He received the National Book Award in 1951 and 1955.(美)国家图书奖 Won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1955.(普利策奖) First book of poetry entitled Harmonium, 1923. Two more major books of poetry during the 1920s and 1930s and three more in the 1940s. Collected Poems in 1955, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Later works of poetry included : Literary style He believes that the poet should find beautifulness, joy,, fun, stimulation and meanings in the dirty realities of the socity.So he committed to study the inherent relationship between reality and art;The poet‘s meditation on nature： he advocated the acceptance of the natural reality of life, against the World of Ultimate Bliss;The later poems tend to thinking. there is no fixed pattern.It is difficult to understand. Language: meticulous; full of wit, puns, and irony; difficult to understand. 语言细致，充满智慧的，多用双关语，讽刺;很难理解。 2. A sensual poet, delight in depicting the world by finding the pleasure in senses. 一个感性的诗人，发现在感官的快乐世界中描绘的喜悦。 magination and reality Stevens, whose work was meditative and philosophical, is very much a poet of ideas.?Concerning the relation between?consciousness?and the world, in Stevenss work imagination is not equivalent to consciousness nor is reality equivalent to the world as it exists outside our minds. Reality is the product of the imagination as it shapes the world. Because it is constantly changing as