Apparently Wallace Stevens was much the same as Williams in hiding his
literary life while working his day job. Stevens was worried that his status
as a poet would lessen him in the eyes of Hartford customers. Ironically,
the Hartford brass probably kept the old guy around as an executive because
they were proud to have a literary luminary in the company.

>From: charles moyer <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: - Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine
>    <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Pound the poet
>Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 19:45:08 -0500
>
>     Glad you liked it, but glad I was saved the agony of seeing you
>giggling
>like a schoolgirl.
>      BTW Williams was elected to be poet laureate for awhile, but he
>wouldn't or didn't serve. Anyone know why? Unfortunately as I understand
>it,
>he seldom let any of his patients, he was a pediatrician in Paterson, N.J.,
>know he was a "nationally" known poet because I guess he felt they would
>then think of him as sort of a nut or overachiever. "Born in a half savage
>country"? I bet everyone in Rapallo knew Pound was a poet. What would you
>make of that?
>
>
>Charles



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