re: America's greatest literary critic about to release new book ranking authors

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They are 20th century modernist poets. Wallace Stevens, believe it or not, was a conservative business insurance salesman by day. He only wrote poetry on the side, and critics put him right up there with frost.

I do not particularly care for his poems though. I rarely understood any of them.

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He was in house counsel for an insurance company in Hartford. But by the time he got going, they basically paid to have a great poet staff.
Stevens' poems are very hard to understand, but once you do they are deep, and the language is beautiful.