Burnshaw, literary critic

BOSTON -Stanley Burnshaw (99), a publisher and literary critic who edited the works of his friend Robert Frost, died on Friday.

Burnshaw, whose literary career spanned more than seven decades, also won critical acclaim for his own poems and books. “No one moved so widely and so well in so many avenues of literary creation and production,” Thomas F Staley, of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin, told The New York Times.Burnshaw also wrote a biography of Frost.He famously feuded with the poet Wallace Stevens, whom he described as “a man who, having lost his footing, now scrambles to stand up and keep his balance”.Although he was never a member of the Communist Party, he wrote a book of poems and a play that the Times called “stridently leftist works”, as he explored “the effects of technology distorted by greed”.- Nampa-AP”No one moved so widely and so well in so many avenues of literary creation and production,” Thomas F Staley, of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin, told The New York Times.Burnshaw also wrote a biography of Frost.He famously feuded with the poet Wallace Stevens, whom he described as “a man who, having lost his footing, now scrambles to stand up and keep his balance”.Although he was never a member of the Communist Party, he wrote a book of poems and a play that the Times called “stridently leftist works”, as he explored “the effects of technology distorted by greed”.- Nampa-AP

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