Stanley Burnshaw (1906–2005)
Author of The Poem Itself
About the Author
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Works by Stanley Burnshaw
The refusers : an epic of the Jews : a trilogy of novels based on three heroic lives (1981) 10 copies, 1 review
The Collected Poems and Selected Prose (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Imprint Series) (2002) 5 copies
EARLY And LATE TESTAMENT. 1 copy
André Spire and His Poetry 1 copy
Associated Works
World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (1998) — Contributor — 496 copies, 2 reviews
American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume Two: E. E. Cummings to May Swenson (2000) — Contributor — 442 copies, 1 review
Years of Protest: A Collection of American Writings of the 1930's (1967) — Contributor — 44 copies, 1 review
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Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1906-06-20
- Date of death
- 2005-09-16
- Gender
- male
- Occupations
- poet
editor
translator - Awards and honors
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1971)
- Nationality
- USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- USA
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Reviews
Generally speaking I regard Bloch as a very capable writer, but too grim for my taste (Psycho etc.). The stories involve a parody of interaction between traditional medieval fantasy --knights, dragons etc. and the modern world, as represented by Thin Tommy's Bar, a setting not unlike Gavagan's Bar in De Camp and Pratt or Robinson's Callahan's Cross-time Saloon. Bloch has added an afterword explaining how he wrote these stories under the influences of Damon Runyon and Thorne Smith.
A wonderful bilingual anthology; my first exposure to modern poetry in French, Spanish, German, and Italian, and the one Blok poem included helped get me interested in Russian.
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- Rating
- 4.2
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