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    A Study Guide for Stanley Kunitz's "The War against the Trees"
    A Study Guide for Stanley Kunitz's "The War against the Trees"
    A Study Guide for Stanley Kunitz's "The War against the Trees"
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    A Study Guide for Stanley Kunitz's "The War against the Trees"

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    A Study Guide for Stanley Kunitz's "The War against the Trees," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateAug 19, 2016
    ISBN9781535840378
    A Study Guide for Stanley Kunitz's "The War against the Trees"

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      A Study Guide for Stanley Kunitz's "The War against the Trees" - Gale

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      The War Against the Trees

      Stanley Kunitz

      1958

      Introduction

      The War Against the Trees is included in Stanley Kunitz’s third volume of poetry Selected Poems, 1928–1958. Though Selected Poems was rejected by eight publishers—three of whom did not read the manuscript—the collection won the 1959 Pulitzer Prize. In the Author’s Note to Selected Poems, Kunitz writes that the poems are not arranged chronologically but in groups that bear some relevance to the themes, the arguments, that have preoccupied me since I began to write. The grouping that contains The War Against the Trees, entitled The Terrible Threshold, is likely so-named because the poems in it describe various ways in which humanity and the earth are on the brink of catastrophic change. It is the last poem in the section. Perhaps the reason The War Against the Trees appears in many anthologies is partially due to its obvious sympathies with environmental

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