COMMENT & ANALYSIS: OBITUARY - Stanley Kunitz.(Features)(Obituary) From: Daily Post (Liverpool, England) | Date: May 18, 2006 | COPYRIGHT 2006 MGN Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

HE KNEW that his words couldn't stop wars, yet, in a sentiment of strange beauty and simplicity, he added: "The poet can demonstrate the power of the solitary conscience."

Stanley Kunitz would tend his garden by day and there he was very happy.

Then, at night, could be heard the rhythm of his old manual typewriter, as he produced the work that would win him a Pulitzer prize in 1958 and some of the laurels that had been bestowed so freely on contemporaries suc...