Kunitz, Stanley J(asspon) (Vol. 6) - Kunitz, Stanley J(asspon) 1905–
Kunitz, Stanley J(asspon) 1905–
Kunitz, an American poet, editor, and translator, a Pulitzer Prize winner, and head of the poetry section at the Library of Congress, is generally considered a brilliant, albeit neglected, metaphysical poet. Among the poets he has translated from the Russian are Akhmatova, Mandelstam, Voznesensky, and Yevtushenko. His Selected Poems 1928–1958 was published in 1958. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 41-44.)
[Stanley] Kunitz is about as far from the imagist as it is possible to be in this time and place, and this arises directly out of the fact that all his landscapes are internal, his wars are internal, his characters are internal. He has been, so far as I can tell, from the beginning true to those themes which are his, rather than to those which are merely fashionable. The flagrant prosperity of the 'twenties, depression, war, his life has spanned them all, and, excepting a few poems here and...
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