Poetry Reading with Comments

Version: Unabridged
Author: Stanley Kunitz
Narrator: Stanley Kunitz
Genres: Poetry, Literature, Lectures, Poetry
Publisher: Chautauqua Institution/ The Great Lecture Library
Published In: N/A
Length: 1 hour, 15 minutes
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Overview

Stanley Kunitz studied at Harvard College, receiving a BA in 1926 and an MA in 1927. His first book of poems, Intellectual Things (1930) was barely recognized, and Kunitz did not publish his second book, Passport to War, for another fourteen years. The Second World War interrupted his career as editor, and when he was released from the army he joined the faculty of Bennington College, the first of several academic jobs. Real recognition came slowly to Kunitz, culminating in his receiving the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1958 for his first Selected Poems.