Two American Poets

Wallace Stevens
&
William Carlos Williams

From the Collection
of Alan M. Klein

Originally exhibited at the Grolier Club, New York City.

Two American Poets

Wallace Stevens & William Carlos Williams

From the

Collection of Alan M. Klein

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Stevens was the stolid son of Pennsylvania Dutch farmers, as he viewed it, who went off to Harvard and developed an exquisitely sensitive ear and eye. He never visited Europe and indeed he left the United States only twice, once to go to Havana and once on a Caribbean cruise. Yet his work reflects a cosmopolitan encounter with the most difficult themes of his time.

Williams – the son of an English father raised in the Caribbean and a mother of Spanish descent raised in Puerto Rico – grew up speaking Spanish at home in New Jersey, studied at a Swiss boarding school, had medical training in Leipzig and spent time in Paris in the ’20s. Yet his work employs the American vernacular to convey the sights and sounds of the immediate world in which he lived.

1879

Birth of Albert Einstein

October 2, 1879

Birth of Wallace Stevens

1881

Birth of Pablo Picasso

1882

Birth of James Joyce
Birth of Virginia Woolf
Birth of I

1883

Birth of Franz Kafka

September 17, 1883

Birth of William Carlos Williams

8vo.; red cloth; stamped in black and gold; worn

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1888

The first Kodak camera is offered to the public by George Eastman