Background

Kunitz, Stanley Jasspon was born on July 29, 1905 in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Solomon Z. and Yetta Helen (Jasspon) Kunitz.

Education

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.

Career

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.

Works

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  • Abelard and Heloise: The Letters and Other Writings (Hackett Classics)

    ( The most comprehensive compilation of the works of Abel...)

  • [ [ [ 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 )Apr-01-2007 Paperback

    (The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garde...)

  • Interviews and Encounters with Stanley Kunitz

    (In these interviews, conducted for the most part by leadi...)

  • Bernard Shaw Before His First Play: The Embryo Playwright (1880-1920 British Authors)

    (Tho' with great difficulty I am got hither, yet now I do ...)

  • The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden

    ( "A graceful and moving glimpse into a rare and giving a...)

  • The Wellfleet Whale, and Companion Poems

    (Poems deal with death, nature, the sea, marriage, lonelin...)

  • The Junior Book of Authors; More Junior Authors; Third Book of Junior Authors; Fifth Book of Junior Authors & Illustrators (The Author Series, Vol #1, Vol #2, Vol #3, Vol #5)

    (Volumes include biographies of children's authors and pho...)

  • British Authors of the Nineteenth Century (Complete in One volume)

    (Encyclopedic listings of over 1000 biographies and 350 po...)

  • The Junior Book of Authors

    (Children's literature -- Bio-bibliography. Illustrated c...)

  • British Authors Before Eighteen Hundred (Wilson Authors)

    (Book by Kunitz, Stanley Jasspon)

  • BRITISH AUTHORS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME WITH 1000 BIOGRAPHIES AND 350 PORTRAITS.

    (Reprint of the first edition. vi , 677 pages. cloth.. thi...)

  • A Kind of Order, A Kind of Folly / Essays and Conversations

    (Softcover Trade Paperback)

  • Next-To-Last-Things: New Poems and Essays

    (Book by Kunitz, Stanley)

  • Intellectual Things

    (Author's first book. Gray cloth boards that are slightly ...)

  • AUTHORS TODAY AND YESTERDAY, A COMPANION VOLUME TO LIVING AUTHORS

    (Second edition. Short biographies of some 320 writers of ...)

  • Poems of Akhmatova

    (This is a book.)

  • British Authors of the Nineteenth Century (Wilson Authors)

    (First edition. Minor cover wear. vi , 677 pages. cloth.. ...)

  • Authors Today and Yesterday
  • The Junior Book of Authors. Second Edition, Revised
  • 2nd Ed The Junior Book Of Authors
  • Passport to the War: A Selection of Poems
  • Passport to the war, a selection of poems
  • British Authors Before 1800
  • The Testing-Tree: Poems
  • The Testing- Tree Poems
  • The Testing Tree Poems By Stanley Kunitz
  • The Testing-Tree
  • Terrible Threshold
  • The coat without a seam : sixty poems, 1930-1972
  • A kind of order, a kind of folly : essays and conversations
  • The Collected Poems of Stanley Kunitz
  • Selected poems, 1928-1958 (Stanley Kunitz)
  • The Poems of Stanley Kunitz, 1928-1978
  • The Testing Tree Poems By Stanley Kunitz
  • Passing Through: The Later Poems, New and Selected
  • [(Passing Through: The Later Poems - New and Selected)] [Author: Stanley Kunitz] published on (February, 2001)
  • [(The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden)] [Author: Stanley Kunitz] published on (May, 2007)
  • [(The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden )] [Author: S. Kunitz] [Jun-2005]
  • British Authors of the Nineteenth Century
  • British authors of the nineteenth century
  • [(The Collected Poems)] [Author: Stanley Kunitz] published on (January, 2001)
  • [(The Collected Poems)] [Author: Stanley Kunitz] published on (January, 2003)
  • [(Passing Through: The Later Poems - New and Selected)] [Author: Stanley Kunitz] published on (February, 2001)
  • Stanley Kunitz Selected Poems 1928-1958
  • STOLEN APPLES. TRANSLATION ADAPTATIONS BY JAMES DICKEY, GEOFFREY DUTTON, LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI, ANTHONY KAHN, STANLEY KUNITZ, GEORGE REAVEY, JOHN UPDIKE, RICHARD WILBUR
  • BRITISH AUTHORS BEFORE 1800, A BIBLIOGRAPHY DICTIONARY
  • British Authors Before 1800, a Biographical Dictionary
  • The Testing Tree Poems By Stanley Kunitz
  • The Junior Book Of Authors
  • The Junior Book of Authors: The Authors Series
  • The Junior Book of Authors; More Junior Authors; Fourth Book of Junior Authors & Illustrators; Fifth Book of Junior Authors & Illustrators - 1985 Printing
  • By Stanley Kunitz - Interviews and Encounters with Stanley Kunitz (1993-01-16) [Hardcover]
  • The Collected Poems
  • The Collected Poems
  • Authors Today and Yesterday
  • BRITISH AUTHORS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME WITH 1000 BIOGR
  • Twentieth Century Authors: A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Literature. First Supplement (The Authors Series)
  • Living Authors; Authors Today and Yesterday (2 volume set)
  • [(Interviews and Encounters with Stanley Kunitz)] [Author: Stanley Kunitz] published on (December, 1993)

• Other Work

  • 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.

Membership

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.

Connections

Married Helen Pearce, 1930 (divorced 1937). Married Eleanor Evans, November 21, 1939 (divorced 1958). 1 daughter, Gretchen.

Married Elise Asher (deceased), June 21, 1958.

Father:

Solomon Z. Kunitz

Mother:

Yetta Helen (Jasspon) Kunitz

Spouse:

Helen Pearce

Spouse:

Eleanor Evans

Spouse:

Elise Asher