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Burnshaw, literary critic and Robert Frost biographer, dies

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From: AP Worldstream
Date: 20050918
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AP Worldstream
09-18-2005
Dateline: BOSTON
Stanley Burnshaw, a publisher and literary critic who edited the works of his friend Robert Frost, died Friday on Martha's Vineyard. He was 99.

Burnshaw, whose literary career spanned more than seven decades, also won critical acclaim for his own poems and books.

Five of his poems were published in 1927 in "The American Caravan: A Yearbook of American Literature." His first book, "Andre Spire and His Poetry" was published in 1933, and he published his final book, a poetry anthology, in 2002.

"No one moved so widely and so well in so many avenues of ...

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