Kunitz, Stanley J[asspon]
Kunitz, Stanley J[asspon]( 1905– ),poet and editor of reference books, graduated from Harvard (1926), and has frequently been a teacher of poetry at colleges and literary workshops. His modern metaphysical poetry appears in Intellectual Things (1930); Passport to the War (1940); Selected Poems (1958, Pulitzer Prize), a third of them new; and The Testing-Tree (1971), marked, as he says, by “a more open style, based on natural speech rhythms.” Later poetry appears in the small The Wellfleet Whale (1983) and Next-to-Last Things: New Poems and Essays (1985). He has also translated several contemporary Russian poets. A Kind of Order, A Kind of Folly (1975) prints essays and other prose. His reference works include American Authors 1600–1900 (1938), with Howard Haycraft.
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