Stanley Burnshaw Author

Stanley Burnshaw’s career—as poet, novelist, critic, biographer, translator, and editor—spanned more than six decades. His involvement in literary circles dates from his years as an editor of the weekly New Masses (1934–36). There, in a review of Wallace Stevens’s Ideas of Order, Burnshaw began his famous debate with Stevens, challenging the poet for his lack of engagement with social issues. During his years with Holt, Rinehart, and Winston (1958–67), he served as Robert Frost’s editor, a relationship that led to the intimately revealing biography Robert Frost Himself.