Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

by Wallace Stevens

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 he spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his Collected Poems in 1955. Some of his best-known poems include:

Anecdote of the Jar
Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock
The Emperor of Ice-Cream
The Idea of Order at Key West
Sunday Morning
The Snow Man
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

Nathanael Rawson | January 17, 2018