Poets who moonlight
Some of our most revered poets also moonlighted their other skills. Who says poets aren’t exceptional?
William Carlos Williams: A Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and contemporary of T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, Williams was also a pediatrician. He is said to have delivered more than 2,000 babies.
Wallace Stevens: The pioneering American Modernist poet, another Pulitzer winner, was also an insurance executive who worked for years as vice president of the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Co.
Geoffrey Chaucer: The author of “The Canterbury Tales,” one of the cornerstones of English lit, pushed paper as well as wrote on it. He served as a customs officer and accountant in 14th-century London.
Lord Byron: Among many other pursuits, Byron – a famous maverick and renaissance man – helped the Greeks mount a war of independence from the Ottoman Empire, until he fell ill and died. (Bonus points: His daughter, Ada, helped conceive the design for the first computer.)
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