Since the late 1920s Stanley Kunitz has consistently gone his own way. Meticulous in the craft of poetry, he has published his writings sparingly and seems to have been unaffected by the work of other poets. Though, as T.S. Eliot observed, "art never...

At the age of 95, Stanley Kunitz (born 1905) became the oldest person ever to serve as Poet Laureate of the United States. One of the finest American poets of the Twentieth Century, Kunitz produced only 12 books in more than 70 years, but the quality...

STANLEY KUNITZ, the poet, turns 100 today. It has been a century of metaphors, marriages, and wars, of grief and gardening, of teaching and winning famous prizes, of confronting, as he has written, "the great simplicities." "I have walked through many lives, /...

Stanley Kunitz was a poet who touched lives -- and not just through his own work. Kunitz, who died Sunday in his Manhattan home at the age of 100, was one of the most celebrated poets of more than one generation: He began...

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With "The Feminine Mystique," Betty Friedan gave rise to the modern women's movement, striking a chord that continues to ring four decades later.Friedan and Coretta Scott King gained fame as crusaders for human rights. Shelley Winters and Wendy Wasserstein made their mark in the performing...

In the following essay, Orr provides an analysis of the recurring images and personal symbolism in Kunitz's poetry, drawing particular attention to the significance of legend, quest, and parent-child motifs related to the poet's search for self-identity and meaning.

In the following essay, Weisberg provides an overview of Kunitz's artistic development and poetic style, drawing attention to his metaphysical concerns, creative vision, and the influence of T. S. Eliot and W. A. Auden.

In the following interview, conducted in 1990, Kunitz discusses his early life, formative experiences, education, beginnings as a poet, literary relationships, and his approach to writing and experiencing poetry.