Passing Through (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Stanley Kunitz
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Memory, Mothers, Parents and children, Nature, Fathers, Death or dying
Slowly but surely, Stanley Kunitz has become a major voice, an eminence, almost the presiding spirit, of American poetry in the twentieth century. When his first book appeared (Intellectual Things, 1930), writers such as T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, and Ezra Pound were in early middle age. Although he claims that such writers had little standing when he was an apprentice poet, it was in part through their works that Kunitz absorbed the early modernist spirit. Perhaps through Eliot, or perhaps from his own reading during his bachelor’s and master’s programs at Harvard...
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