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Kunitz, Stanley Jasspon was born on July 29, 1905 in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Solomon Z. and Yetta Helen (Jasspon) Kunitz.
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Author's first book. Gray cloth boards that are slightly soiled along edges. Clean and tight copy. Shows shelf heavy wear. Corners are bumped and rubbed. Size: 5 1/4" x 7 3/4". No marks. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Previous owner's name ink-stamped. Deckled edges (rough cut), browned. Not Ex-Library. All books offered from DSB are stocked at our store in Fayetteville, AR. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 026786.
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Tho' with great difficulty I am got hither, yet now I do not repent me of all the trouble I have been to arrive where I am. So Bernard Shaw quoted Valiant-for-Truth, with his foot on the brink of the river, from John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, in a letter to the actress Elizabeth Robins. It was the 1890s. G.B.S. was on the brink of fame. He had overcome limited schooling, Irish origins, unemployment and near-poverty, and a series of false starts as a writer, but he resolved to succeed on his own terms. He abandoned a striking Passion Play in Shakespearean blank verse. He conceded that the first of his failed novels was titled Immaturity with merciless fitness. The British Museum Reading Room became his university. He taught himself everything from Pitman shorthand to books, music, and the arts becoming in succession the leading music critic in England, then the leading drama critic. His goal was the stage itself. All that he wrote would be fodder for his theatrical future. His first completed play, Widowers' Houses, ran only two performances, but he knew he was on his way. Stanley Weintraub's latest book evokes Bernard Shaw's formative decades as novelist, diarist, polemicist, memoirist, critic of music and the arts, and aspiring playwright. The fourteen segments about Shaw's pre-playwright beginnings (from Passion Without Passion: Shaw's Abortive Jesus Play to Shaw Becomes a Playwright: July December 1892) have been written and edited over more than half a century. When not completely new they are much augmented. Readers of Shaw will appreciate having them updated and available together in this new volume.
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"A graceful and moving glimpse into a rare and giving artist's refined poetics, garden aesthetics, and spirituality."―Booklist Throughout his life (1905-2006) Stanley Kunitz created poetry and tended gardens. This book is the distillation of conversations, none previously published, that took place between 2002 and 2004. Beginning with the garden, that "work of the imagination," the explorations journey through personal recollections, the creative process, and the harmony of the life cycle. A bouquet of poems and a total of 26 full-color photographs accompany the various sections. The Wild Braid received a 2006 American Horticultural Society Book Award.
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The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden [ The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden by Kunitz, Stanley ( Author ) Paperback Apr- 2007 ] Paperback Apr- 01- 2007
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The most comprehensive compilation of the works of Abelard and Heloise ever presented in a single volume in English, The Letters and Other Writings features an accurate and stylistically faithful new translation of both The Calamities of Peter Abelard and the remarkable letters it sparked between the ill-fated twelfth-century philosopher and his brilliant former student and lover—an exchange whose intellectual passion, formal virtuosity, and psychological drama distinguish it as one of the most extraordinary correspondences in European history. Thanks to this edition, Latin-less readers will be better placed than ever to see why this undisputed milestone in the intellectual life of medieval France is also a masterpiece of Western literature. In addition to the The Calamities and the letters--the first complete English translation of all seven in more than eighty years--this volume includes an Introduction, a map, and a chronology, Abelard's Confession of Faith, letters between Heloise and Peter the Venerable, the Introduction to The Questions of Heloise, and selected songs and poems by Abelard, among them a previously untranslated shaped poem, Open Wide Your Eyes. Extracts of lost letters sometimes ascribed to Abelard and Heloise are given in appendixes.
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In these interviews, conducted for the most part by leading young poets, we are given the full range of his thinking, his passion and wisdom, his private and public concerns. This book will be kept close at hand by young poets as a survival kit. Others who care about poetry and the life of the imagination will read and re-read this book to clear the head. Publishers Weekly recently saluted this Pulitzer Prize-winning poet as "a man who is both great and modest, the epitome of all we would wish our poets to be.
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Volumes include biographies of children's authors and photos/drawings. Vol 3, 5 include reproduced autographs. Vol 5 includes illustrators as well as authors. Heavy stock paper. (Vol 1: 1970 2nd Ed 6th print. 305 pgs. LCCC5113057 / Vol 2: 1964 1st ed. 2nd prnt. 235 pgs. LCCC6311816 / 1972 1st ed 320 pgs. LCCC75149381. ISBN 97808242040 / Vol 5: 1983 1st ed. 357 pgs. 0824206940
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Kunitz, Stanley Jasspon was born on July 29, 1905 in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Solomon Z. and Yetta Helen (Jasspon) Kunitz.
AB summa cum laude, Harvard University, 1926. Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1927. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Clark University, 1961.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), Anna Maria College, 1977. Doctor of Letters (honorary), St. Mary's College, Maryland, 1994. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Worcester State College, 1980.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), State University of New York, Brockport, 1987.
Editor Wilson Library Bulletin, 1928-1943. Literature faculty Bennington College, 1946-1949. Professor English Potsdam (New York ) State Teachers College, 1949-1950.
Director seminar Potsdam Summer Workshop in Creative Arts, 1949-1953. Lecturer The New School, 1950-1957. Visiting professor poetry University Washington, 1955-1956.
Visiting professor English Queens College, 1956-1957, Brandeis University, 1958-1959. Director poetry workshop Poetry Center Young Men’s Hebrew Association, New York, 1958-1962. Danforth visiting lecturer various American colleges, 1961-1963.
Lecturer Columbia University, 1963-1966, adjunct professor writing Graduate School Arts, 1967-1985. Editor Yale Series Younger Poets, 1969-1977. Visiting professor poetry Yale University, 1970, Rutgers University at Camden, 1974.
Visiting professor, senior fellow in humanities Princeton University, 1978, Vassar College, 1981. Consultant poetry Library. of Congress, 1974-1976. Founder Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts, Poets House, New York City.
( The most comprehensive compilation of the works of Abel...)
(The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garde...)
(In these interviews, conducted for the most part by leadi...)
(Tho' with great difficulty I am got hither, yet now I do ...)
( "A graceful and moving glimpse into a rare and giving a...)
(Poems deal with death, nature, the sea, marriage, lonelin...)
(Volumes include biographies of children's authors and pho...)
(Encyclopedic listings of over 1000 biographies and 350 po...)
(Children's literature -- Bio-bibliography. Illustrated c...)
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Author: (verse) Intellectual Things, 1930, Living Authors, 1931, Authors Today and Yesterday, 1933, Junior Book of Authors, 1934, British Authors of the 19th Century, 1936, American Authors, 1600-1900, 1938, Twentieth Century Authors, 1942, First Supplement, 1955, Passport to the War, 1944, British Authors Before 1800, 1952, Selected Poems, 1928-1958, 1958 (Pulitzer prize), Poems of John Keats, 1964, European Authors, 1000-1900, 1967, The Testing-Tree, 1971, The Terrible Threshold, 1974, The Coat Without a Seam, 1974, A Kind of Order, A Kind of Folly: Essays and Conversations, 1975, The Poems of Stanley Kunitz 1928-1978, 1979, The Wellfleet Whale and Companion Poems, 1983, Next-To-Last Things: New Poems and Essays, 1985, The Essential Blake, 1987, Interviews and Encounters, 1993, Passing Through: The Later Poems, 1995 (National Book award), Collected Poems, 2000, The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden, 2005. Editor (with David Ignatow) The Wild Card, Selected Poems, Early and Late, of Karl Shapiro, 1998, The Collected Poems, 2000. Translator: (with others) verse Antiworlds (A. Voznesensky), 1966, Antiworlds and The Fifth Ace, 1967, Stolen Apples (Y. Yevtushenko), 1971, (with Max Hayward) Poems of Akhmatova, 1973, Story Under Full Sail (A. Voznesensky), 1974.Editor, co-translator: Orchard Lamps (Ivan Drach), 1978.
With Army of the United States, 1943-1945. Member Academy American Poets (fellowship award 1968, chancellor 1970-1995). Member American Academy of Arts and Letters (secretary 1985-1988), Poets House New York (founding president 1985-1990), Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown (founding member, board directors 1968-2006, medal for distinguished service in arts 1997), Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Helen Pearce, 1930 (divorced 1937). Married Eleanor Evans, November 21, 1939 (divorced 1958). 1 daughter, Gretchen.
Married Elise Asher (deceased), June 21, 1958.