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Article: Stanley Kunitz.(Stanley Kunitz, American poet)(Obituary)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- May 27, 2006
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Stanley Kunitz, American poet, died on May 14th, aged 100
IN A very long life, Stanley Kunitz did not seem to move around much. Apart from a spell in Pennsylvania in the 1930s and a lecture tour of the Soviet Union in 1967, he spent almost all his days in New York or New England, and most of those in Massachusetts. A line drawn through Worcester, Cambridge and Provincetown, in Cape Cod, where he grew roses in the Atlantic blasts, could neatly contain his world.
Yet Mr Kunitz was a poet, one of America's best of the past century, and therefore travelled incessantly. Much of the time he was on the sea, voyaging to the ends of the earth. In imagination he ...