Born at Sag Harbor, New York, 1869. Educated in private and public schools. About 1895 he moved to the West and now lives in California.
Bibliography
- The Testimony of the Suns and Other Poems. 1903.
- A Wine of Wizardry and Other Poems. 1908.
- The House of Orchids and Other Poems. 1911.
- Beyond the Breakers and Other Poems. 1914.
- The Caged Eagle and Other Poems. 1916.
- The Binding of the Beast and Other Poems. 1917.
- Lilith. 1919. (Dramatic poem.)
- Rosamond. 1920.
Studies and Reviews
- Bookm. 47 (’18): 339.
- Poetry, 7 (’16): 307.
- See also Book Review Digest, 1916.
A New York lawyer, living in Hartford, Connecticut, whose work although not as yet collected into a volume has attracted much attention. Received the Poetry prize for the best one-act play, in 1916, for his “Three Travellers Watch a Sunrise,” and the Levinson prize for his “Pecksniffiana,” 1920.
Mr. Stevens’s art is purely decorative, and its effects must be studied as in pictorial art. He is an experimenter in free verse forms as well as in impressions.
Bibliography
- Poems in Little Review. 1918.
- Others 1916, 1917, 1919.
- Poetry, vols. 7, 8, 11, 12, 15, 19, 20.