Milton: The Prophetic Books of William Blake - Softcover

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Stanley Kunitz was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1905 and educated at Harvard University. His numerous honors include the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, and designation as State Poet of New York. He has edited the Yale Series of Younger Poets, served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, and taught for many years in the graduate writing program at Columbia University. He is president of Poets House, New York, a founding father of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, and a Senior Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts. Recent publications include "The Poems of Stanley Kunitz"1928-1978 ("Atlantic, " 1979), "Next-to-Last Things: New Poems and Essays" ("Atlantic, " 1985), and "Passing Through: The Later Poems, New and Selected" ("Norton, " 1995) for which he was awarded the 1995 National Book Award for Poetry.