For more than 40 years, award-winning poet Thom Gunn (born 1929) has concentrated on traditional form and, in contrast, on modern themes like LSD, panhandlers, and homosexuality. Born in England, he h...
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Biography EssayThe paradox of Thom Gunn's achievement is best characterized by the ambiguities inherent in the word fashion. He is a "fashioning" poet, in the old-fashioned sense—a writer preo...
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[This entry was updated by Jack W. C. Hagstrom (Columbia University) from the entry by Blake Morrison in the Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography, volume 8, pp. 128-141.]The paradox of Tho...
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