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David Kalstone

American writer and literary critic

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American writer and literary critic

David Kalstone (July 25, 1933 – June 14, 1986) was a gay{{cite book | quote-page = 343

Biography

Kalstone, born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, was the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship and studied at the University of Cambridge. He taught at Harvard University starting in 1959 and was a professor of English at Rutgers University from 1967 until his death.

An authority on the Elizabethan courtier poet Sir Philip Sidney, Kalstone also lectured and wrote about 20th-century poets including Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. His close friends included the poet James Merrill{{cite web |url-status = dead |url-status = dead

Merrill wrote the introduction to Becoming a Poet, a study of Elizabeth Bishop and the influence of Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell in helping shape the younger poet's voice. Left incomplete at Kalstone's death due to AIDS, it was published (to considerable acclaim) in 1989.

Bibliography

  • Sidney's Poetry: Contexts and Interpretations (1965)
  • Five Temperaments: Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, James Merrill, Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery (1977)
  • Becoming a Poet: Elizabeth Bishop with Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell (1989)

References

References

  1. Kat Long, 'Edmund White's New York,' in ''[[The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide]]'', Jan-Feb 2010, p. 21
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