Stanley Kunitz

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Stanley Kunitz

Stanley Jasspon Kunitz (born July 29, 1905 in Worcester , Massachusetts , † May 14, 2006 in New York City , New York ) was a highly regarded American poet . He was the Poet Laureate of the Library of Congress from 1974 to 1976 and 2000 to 2001 .

Life

Six weeks before he was born, his father committed suicide in a public park. This event shaped him, which is also expressed in his later poems. Kunitz discovered his enthusiasm for poetry while still at school, especially through the works of Robert Herrick , William Butler Yeats , and William Blake , which also influenced his later works. After finishing school, he received a scholarship from Harvard University , where he graduated summa cum laude in 1926 and was awarded the Garrison Medal for Poetry by the university . He then moved to New York and worked as an editor at the HW Wilson Company for the Wilson Library Bulletin . In 1930 he published his first book, Intellectual Things , which initially received little attention. Although he was a conscientious objector , he served as a war correspondent with the rank of staff sergeant in the US Army during World War II . He published the impressions of the war in his book Passport to the War in 1944 .

Kunitz's work attracts a lot of attention and is considered profound. Some suspect the influence of the work of Carl Gustav Jung behind the symbolism of his works . He has received numerous awards, including the 1959 Pulitzer Prize in the poetry category for his work Selected Poems, 1928-1958 and 1995 the National Book Award for Passing Through, The Later Poems, New and Selected . In 1963 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters . Until shortly before his death, he published other works, most recently The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden in 2005. He is widely regarded as one of the best and most influential American poets of the 20th century.

Kunitz was married three times, most recently to the painter Elise Asher , and has a daughter from his second marriage. He died in 2006 at the age of 100 of complications from pneumonia.

bibliography

  • Intellectual Things (1930)
  • Passport to the War (1944)
  • Selected Poems, 1928-1958 (1958)
  • The Testing Tree (1971)
  • The Poems of Stanley Kunitz (1928–1978) (1978)
  • Next-to-Last Things: New Poems and Essays (1985)
  • Passing Through, The Later Poems, New and Selected (1995)
  • The Collected Poems of Stanley Kunitz (2000)
  • The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden (2005)

Dubbing

  • Stefan Hippe : wild with love (1997) for vocals, flute, drums and accordion. Premiere November 21, 2001 Nuremberg (with Irene Kurka [soprano])

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members: Stanley Kunitz. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 7, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Kunitz, Stanley
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kunitz, Stanley Jasspon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lyric poet
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Worcester , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 2006
Place of death New York City , New York