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Stanley J. Kunitz '26 will be the country's tenth poet laureate, the Library of Congress announced Monday, succeeding Robert Pinksy in October as the nation's top poet...
...Kunitz, 95, who splits his time between a home in New York City and a summer house in Provincetown, Mass., said he is honored by the title, but said that American society is so diverse that no one can really represent the entire country...
...Kunitz will receive a $35,000 salary and an office at the Library of Congress, and he says that as poet laureate he hopes to encourage poets from the many different parts of society...
...went on to Hamlet. In America most major modern poets have obeyed Gide's injunction. The result is a vigorous body of English verse that encompasses such varied sources as Icelandic epics (W.H. Auden), La Fontaine's fables (Marianne Moore), Brazilian poetry (Elizabeth Bishop), Russian lyrics (Stanley Kunitz) and contemporary Hungarian poetry (William Jay Smith...
Before Caldicott spoke, the Phi Beta Kappa members heard Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Stanley Kunitz '26 read his unfinished work. "The Wellfleet Whale," and listened to choral music performed by the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum...