Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
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Pulitzer Prize winning poet, but he did have a fight with Ernest Hemingway and two arguments with Robert Frost!
Waymark Code: WM7GAB
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 10/22/2009
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Marker Text: A major 20th century American poet, Stevens was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his “Collected Poems” in 1955. Works such as "Bantams in Pinewoods," "Harmonium," and "The Auroras of Autumn" combined poetic language with serious philosophical ideas. His birthplace was here.
Marker Name: Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
County: Berks
Date Dedicated: 10/01/2007
Marker Type: City
Location: 323 N 5th St., Reading
Category: Writers
Website: [Web Link]
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