The Man with Night Sweats (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Thom Gunn
- First Published: 1987
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Dramatic monologue
- Subjects: Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Sex or sexuality, Death or dying, AIDS, Terminal illness or terminally ill, Diseases, Morality or morals, Meditation, Aesthetics
Years ago, when Thom Gunn studied under Yvor Winters and J. V. Cunningham at Stanford, he acknowledged his allegiance to the antimodernist and classic sensibility of these masters by praising Winters: “You keep both Rule and Energy in view,/ Much power in each, most in the balanced two.” In this collection, his tenth volume of poems, there is a short elegy for Cunningham, titled “JVC,” that reiterates Gunn’s respect for the control and poise he admires in both poets but also voices a restrained but clear praise for the intensity of feeling that Cunningham managed to bring to...
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