Carrol Cox
andie nachgeborenen wrote:
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> Charles Ives, the modernist composer, was also an
> insurance man. I can't think of any poetical lawyers,
> as opposed to poets with some legal training.
Stevens did not merely have "legal training"; to begin with at least I believe his work for the insurance company was legal work. I think he is a valid instance of an attorney as poet. --------------------------------------------------------------------
I just took a quick look on Google. I had the wrong law school for Stevens: he graduated from New York Law school in 1903. Then, "After working for several New York law firms from 1904 to 1907, he had been hired as a bonding lawyer for an insurance firm in 1908, and by 1914 was hired as the vice-president of the New York Office of the Equitable Surety Co. of St. Louis. When this job was abolished as a result of mergers in 1916, he joined the home office of the Hartford Accident and Indemnity and left New York City to live in Hartford, where he would remain the rest of his life. By 1934, he had been named Vice President of his company."
So Stevens was a lawyer AND an insurance executive - a more unlikely poet would be difficult to imagine. A fluke indeed.
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