Kunitz, Stanley

Gathers poems from Stanley Kunitz, including poems from his later years such as "Halley's Comet" and "My Mother's Pears.".

Contains 700 new biographies mostly of authors who have come into prominence since 1942. Also updates Twentieth Century Authors 1942.

"The purpose of this work is to provide in a single volume brief, readable accounts of the lives of the major and minor British authors of the nineteenth century concerning whom students and amateurs of English literature are likely at any time to desire information.".