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Born in 1905 / United States / English

Bibliography

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POETRY

  • Intellectual Things, Doubleday, Doran (New York City), 1930.
  • Passport to the War: A Selection of Poems, Holt (New York City), 1944.
  • Selected Poems, 1928-1958, Little, Brown (Boston), 1958.
  • The Testing-Tree: Poems, Little, Brown, 1971.
  • The Terrible Threshold: Selected Poems, 1940-70, Secker & Warburg (London), 1974.
  • The Coat without a Seam: Sixty Poems, 1930-1972, Gehenna Press (Northampton, MA), 1974.
  • The Lincoln Relics, Graywolf Press (Townsend, WA), 1978.
  • The Poems of Stanley Kunitz: 1928-1978, Little, Brown, 1979.
  • The Wellfleet Whale and Companion Poems, Sheep Meadow Press (Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY), 1983.
  • Next-to-Last Things: New Poems and Essays, Little, Brown, 1985.
  • Passing Through: Later Poems, New and Selected, Norton (New York City), 1995.
  • The Collected Poems, Norton, 2000.
  • (With Genine Lentine) The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden , Norton (New York, NY), 2005.

NONFICTION

  • (Translator with Max Hayward) Poems of Anna Akhmatova, Little, Brown, 1973.
  • (Translator) Andrei Voznesensky, Story under Full Sail, Doubleday, 1974.
  • Robert Lowell: Poet of Terribilita, Pierpont Morgan Library (New York City), 1974.
  • A Kind of Order, a Kind of Folly: Essays and Conversations, Little, Brown, 1975.
  • Interviews and Encounters with Stanley Kunitz, edited by Stanley Moss, Sheep Meadow Press, 1993.

Also contributor of translations to: Andrei Voznesensky, Antiworlds, Basic Books (New York City), 1966; Voznesensky, Antiworlds [and] The Fifth Ace, Anchor Books (New York City), 1967; and Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Stolen Apples, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1971.

EDITOR

  • Living Authors: A Book of Biographies, H. W. Wilson (Bronx, New York), 1931.
  • (With Howard Haycraft) Authors Today and Yesterday: A Companion Volume to "Living Authors," H. W. Wilson, 1933.
  • (With Haycraft) The Junior Book of Authors: An Introduction to the Lives of Writers and Illustrators for Younger Readers, H. W. Wilson, 1934, second revised edition, 1951.
  • (With Haycraft) British Authors of the Nineteenth Century, H. W. Wilson, 1936.
  • (With Haycraft) American Authors, 1600-1900: A Biographical Dictionary of American Literature, H. W. Wilson, 1938, 8th edition, 1971.
  • (With Haycraft) Twentieth-Century Authors: A Biographical Dictionary, H. W. Wilson, 1942, first supplement, 1955.
  • (With Haycraft) British Authors before 1800: A Biographical Dictionary, H. W. Wilson, 1952.
  • Poems of John Keats, Crowell (New York City), 1964.
  • (With Vineta Colby) European Authors, 1000-1900: A Biographical Dictionary of European Literature, H. W. Wilson, 1967.
  • (Editor and author of introduction) Ivan Drach, Orchard Lamps, Sheep Meadow Press, 1978.
  • Selections: University and College Poetry Prizes, 1973-78, Academy of American Poets, 1980.
  • (Author of introduction) The Essential Blake, Ecco Press, 1987.
  • (Editor, author of introduction, translator; with Max Hayward) Poems of Akhmatova/Izbrannye stikhi, Houghton Mifflin, 1997.
  • (Editor, with David Ignatow) The Wild Card: Selected Poems, Early and Late, by Karl Shapiro, University of Illinois Press (Champaign, IL), 1998.

CONTRIBUTOR

  • War Poets: An Anthology of the War Poetry of the Twentieth Century, edited by Oscar Williams, John Day (New York City), 1945.
  • The Criterion Book of Modern American Verse, edited by W. H. Auden, Criterion, 1956.
  • How Does a Poem Mean?, edited by John Ciardi, Houghton (Boston), 1959.
  • John Fischer and Robert B. Silvers, editors, Writing in America, Rutgers University Press (New Brunswick, NJ), 1960.
  • Modern American Poetry, edited by Louis Untermeyer, Harcourt (New York City), 1962.
  • American Lyric Poems: From Colonial Times to the Present, edited by Elder Olson, Appleton (New York City), 1964.
  • Anthony J. Ostroff, editor, The Contemporary Poet as Artist and Critic, Little, Brown, 1964.
  • Vineta Colby, editor, American Culture in the Sixties, H. W. Wilson, 1964.
  • The Distinctive Voice, edited by William J. Martz, Scott, Foresman (New York City), 1966.
  • Where Is Vietnam?: American Poets Respond, edited by Walter Lowenfels, Doubleday-Anchor (New York City), 1967.
  • Robert Lowell and others, editors, Randall Jarrell, 1914-1965, Farrar, Straus (New York City), 1967.
  • Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, edited by Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, Norton, 1973.
  • Fifty Years of American Poetry: Anniversary Volume for the Academy of American Poets, Abrams (New York City), 1984.
  • Contemporary American Poetry, edited by A. Poulin, Jr., Houghton, fourth edition, 1985.

Contributor to periodicals, including Atlantic, New Republic, New Yorker, Antaeus, New York Review of Books, American Poetry Review, and Harper's. General editor, "Yale Series of Younger Poets," Yale University Press (New Haven, CT), 1969-77.