SOURCE: A review of Passport to the War, in The New York Times Book Review, March 26, 1944, p. 26.

In the following review of Passport to the War, Schorer comments that Kunitz's "'metaphysical' style" has become less imitative since the publication of his first volume of poetry.

[Stanley Kunitz] made a … cautious selection of influences and, from the beginning, showed himself to be a first-rate rather than a second-rate poet by integrating those influences with his own vision of experience to produce what may be called a style. Half of his present book. [Passport to the War] consists of selections from his first book, Intellectual Things published in 1930, and comparison is gratifying. For it shows clearly, in the first place, that many of his early poems were exactly as good as they were men taken to be; poems like "Organic Bloom" and "In a Strange House" have lost none of...