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Stanley Kunitz Criticism


Mortally Wounded Creatures - Boston Review

Though Kunitz has never acknowledged a sharp distinction between his early and late styles, this collection tells the story of that break: it is the story of a ...

On Stanley Kunitz and the Fine Arts Work Center - The Paris Review

The poem goes on to narrate the poet's journey from his garden to his desk in the “semi-dark” of his basement, “with nothing for a view /to ...

Kunitz, Stanley | Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature

He resisted the move toward looser, “confessional” poetry for a long time after his contemporaries had embraced it, but critics agree that most of his best work ...

The Testing of Stanley Kunitz - University of Iowa Libraries Publishing

Stanley Kunitz has always been a poet's poet. Editor, translator ... Academic critics have been much less receptive to Kunitz's work. He is.

Stanley Kunitz | The Poetry Foundation

Some critics suggested that Kunitz's poetry steadily increased in quality in the most recent decades. ... Kunitz's early poetry collections, Intellectual Things ...

Stanley Kunitz Critical Essays - eNotes.com

Kunitz is at once impudent and sentimental in this poem. He is also guardedly humorous. In the final stanza, however, he is tender, saying that he wants to pin ...

Stanley Kunitz | Poetry | The Guardian

The long literary life of the American poet Stanley Kunitz, who has died of pneumonia aged 100, refuted what Wordsworth described as most poets' youthful " ...

Stanley Kunitz: A Poem has Secrets that the Poet Knows Nothing Of

Kunitz's poetry is steeped with images of loss and regeneration, aging and mortality, and a sense of grappling with the ultimate questions of ...

An Interview with Stanley Kunitz - University of Michigan

Stanley Kunitz was born in 1905 and has won many honors for his poetry, including the Pulitzer, Bollingen, and Lenore Marshall Prizes.

Stanley Kunitz Criticism - eNotes.com

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Remembering Stanley Kunitz | The Poetry Foundation

I can't reminisce about Stanley Kunitz the person as presence—I have too many memories there and not enough eloquence of anecdote. I urge anyone ...

David Rigsbee - On "The Abduction" and First Meeting Stanley Kunitz

... Reviews, both from Black Lawrence Press. In addition to his eleven collections of poems, he has published critical books on the poetry of Joseph Brodsky and ...

Passing Through- The Later Poems by Stanley Kunitz

Charles Loudon** - The Fox Chase Review I had the opportunity this past week to revisit Passing Through – The Later Poems by Stanley Kunitz.

Stanley Kunitz, Poet Laureate, Dies at 100 - The New York Times

The critic Vernon Young wrote in The New York Review of Books: "Conspicuous, in the most convincing of Stanley Kunitz's poems, is the ...

Stanley Kunitz, The Art of Poetry No. 29

The best criticism is addressed to the poet over the heads of the public. It's not judgmental but collaborative. It aims to help the poet find his own self in ...

Spotlight on Stanley Kunitz: projectcultcrit — LiveJournal

The witty, even defiantly intellectual first poems of Kunitz gave way, gradually, to a more autobiographical verse (as in The Testing Tree, 1971) ...

Stanley Kunitz on Theodore Roethke - Poetry Society of America

Only a few years before his death, he could refer to himself sardonically as "the oldest younger poet in the U.S.A." Some seven decades have passed since he ...

Theodore Roethke | Stanley Kunitz | The New York Review of Books

The poet of my generation who meant most to me, in his person and in his art, was Theodore Roethke. To say, in fact, "poet of my generation" is to name.

Pulitzer-Winning Poet Stanley Kunitz Dies - The Washington Post

At the time, Mr. Kunitz replied to repeated criticisms of the density of his work: "A poet cannot concern himself with being fair to the reader.

Searching for Stanley Kunitz's Garden - Literary Hub

When asked by the Paris Review in 1982, “If there are few serious readers of poetry, how is its light disseminated?” he replied, “Largely it's ...