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Thom Gunn

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We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy.


— Thom Gunn


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We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.


— Thom Gunn


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When I first started teaching at Berkeley in 1958, I could not announce that I was gay to anybody, though probably quite a few of my fellow teachers knew.


— Thom Gunn


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When I first started to write, I was aware of being queer, but I didn't write about it. Queer poems would probably not have been accepted by the editors I sent them to.


— Thom Gunn


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When I was an undergraduate I had very badly annotated editions of Shakespeare's sonnets, all of which left out the important fact that will has a sexual sense in Shakespeare's sonnets.


— Thom Gunn


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While I don't satisfy my curiosity about the way I work, I'm terribly curious about the way other poets work. But I would think that's true about many of us.


— Thom Gunn


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About Thom Gunn






Did you know about Thom Gunn?

 . "But my life" he wrote "insists on continuities — between America and England between free verse and metre between vision and everyday consciousness. One could hardly ask for more.

Thom Gunn (29 August 1929 – 25 April 2004) born Thomson William Gunn was an Anglo-American poet who was praised both for his early verses in England where he was associated with The Movement and his later poetry in America even after moving toward a looser free-verse style. He won numerous major literary awards. After relocating from England to San Francisco Gunn who became openly gay wrote about gay-related topics—particularly in his most famous work The Man With Night Sweats in 1992—as well as drug use sex and topics related to his bohemian lifestyle.

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