Quick Facts
- NAME: Stanley Jasspon Kunitz
- OCCUPATION: Educator, Poet
- BIRTH DATE: July 25, 1905
- DEATH DATE: May 14, 2006
- EDUCATION: Harvard University
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Worcester, Massachusetts
- PLACE OF DEATH: New York City, New York
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Stanley Kunitz was an American poet who was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress twice (1974; 2000).
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Synopsis
Stanley Kunitz was an American poet who was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress twice (1974; 2000). He studied at Harvard, and became a literary scholar, teaching at the New School for Social Research and Columbia University. His first collection of verse was Intellectual Things. Success came with Selected Poems 1928-1958, which was awarded a Pulitzer Prize.
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Poet, born in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. He studied at Harvard, and became a literary scholar, teaching poetry at the New School for Social Research, New York City (1950–7), and at Columbia University (from 1963). His first collection of verse was Intellectual Things (1930). Success came with Selected Poems 1928–1958, which was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1959. In the year 2000 he became the 10th Poet Laureate of the United States. Later books include The Testing-Tree (1971), Next to Last Things (1985). and Passing Through (1995).
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