Thom Gunn

Furtherreading

Other info : Career | Bibliography

BOOKS

• Bixby, George, and Jack W. C. Hagstrom, Thom Gunn: A Bibliography, 1940-78, Rota (London, England), 1979.
• Bold, Alan, Thom Gunn and Ted Hughes, Oliver & Boyd (Edinburgh, Scotland), 1976.
• Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1992.
• Contemporary Literary Criticism, Gale (Detroit, MI), Volume 3, 1975, Volume 6, 1976, Volume 18, 1981, Volume 32, 1985, Volume 81, 1994.
• Contemporary Poets, seventh edition, St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 2001.
• Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 27: Poets of Great Britain and Ireland, 1945-1960, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1984.
• Dodsworth, Martin, editor, The Survival of Poetry, Faber & Faber, 1970, pp. 193-215.
• Gay and Lesbian Literature, St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 1994.
• Haffenden, John, editor, Viewpoints: Poets in Conversation, Faber (London, England), 1981.
• King, P. R., Nine Contemporary Poets: A Critical Introduction, Methuen, 1979, pp. 77-106.
• Mander, John, The Writer and Commitment, Secker & Warburg, 1961, pp. 153-178.
• Modern British Literature, second edition, St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 2000.
• Morriston, Blake, The Movement: English Poetry and Fiction of the 1950s, Oxford University Press, 1980.
• Press, John, Rule and Energy, Oxford University Press, 1963, pp. 191-201.
• Rosenthal, M. L., The New Poets, Oxford University Press, 1967, pp. 251-257.

PERIODICALS

• Advocate, August 10, 1993.
• Booklist, April 15, 1994, Ray Olson, review of Collected Poems, p. 1503; June 1, 2000, Ray Olson, review of Boss Cupid, p. 1808; March 15, 2001, Ray Olson, review of Boss Cupid, p. 1349.
• Book World, September 16, 1973.
• Boston Review, June-August, 1993, David Ferry, "The Rage of Understanding."
• British Book News, April, 1987.
• Chicago Review, spring, 2000, Devin Johnston, review of Boss Cupid, p. 91.
• Critical Quarterly, winter, 1961, pp. 359-367; autumn, 1971, pp. 219-227; summer, 1987.
• Economist, February 22, 1992, review of The Man with Night Sweats, p. 88.
• Encounter, January, 1983.
• Gay and Lesbian Review, summer, 2000, "Billy Lux Interviews a Poet of the Century," p. 41.
• Guardian, September 1, 1961; March 25, 2000, Robert Potts, "Erotic Balance."
• Iowa Review, winter, 1973, pp. 54-72.
• Lambda Book Report, July-August, 1992, Kenny Fries, review of The Man with Night Sweats, p. 16.
• Listener, August 12, 1982.
• London Magazine, March, 1963, pp. 45-52; November, 1964, pp. 64-70; December, 1977, pp. 5-15.
• London Review of Books, July 15, 1982.
• Los Angeles Times Book Review, November 6, 1988.
• Massachusetts Review, spring, 1982.
• Nation, November 10, 1979, Donald Hall, review of Selected Poems 1950-1975; August 31, 1992, Henri Cole, review of The Man with Night Sweats, p. 221; December 6, 1993, Robert Pinsky, review of The Man with Night Sweats, p. 70.
• New Leader, May, 2000, Phoebe Pettingell, "The Power of Laughter," p. 39.
• New Statesman, October 6, 1961; August 13, 1982.
• New Statesman and Society, March 6, 1992, Michael Horovitz, review of The Man with Night Sweats, p. 46.
• New Yorker, September 14, 1992, review of The Man with Night Sweats, p. 108.
• New York Review of Books, September 20, 1973; May 27, 1993, Michael Wood, review of The Man with Night Sweats, p. 32; June 15, 2000, James Fenton, review of Boss Cupid, p. 45.
• New York Times, August 6, 2000, William Deresiewicz, "Among the Bad Boys," Section 7, p. 25.
• New York Times Book Review, June 16, 1974; January 20, 1980; November 15, 1992, William Logan, review of The Man with Night Sweats, p. 15; May 27, 1993; May 29, 1994, Richard Tillinghast, review of Collected Poems, p. 10; August 6, 2000, William Deresiewicz, review of Boss Cupid, p. 25.
• Observer (London, England), July 10, 1988; December 13, 1992, Kate Kellaway, "A Poet Who's Still Firing on All Cylinders," p. 43.
• Poetry, August, 1958; May, 1974; September, 1975; February, 1993, Alfred Corn, review of The Man with Night Sweats, p. 291; February, 1995, David Spurr, review of Collected Poems, p. 289; March, 2001, David Orr, review of Boss Cupid, p. 391.
• Poetry Review, spring, 1966, pp. 32-35.
• Publishers Weekly, February 28, 1994, review of Collected Poems, p. 77; April 17, 2000, review of Boss Cupid, p. 71.
• Raritan, fall, 1993, Charles Berger, review of The Man with Night Sweats, p. 141; fall, 2000, Lagdon Hammer, "Thom Gunn and the Cool Queer Tales of Cupid," p. 114.
• San Francisco Chronicle, May 4, 2000, David Kipen, "Poet Knows Cupid's Aim Is Arbitrary," p. B1.
• Saturday Review, June 1, 1961.
• Sewanee Review, January, 1985.
• Spectator, September 1, 1961; March 7, 1992, William Scammell, review of The Man with Night Sweats, p. 32.
• Stand, spring, 1989.
• Time, April 24, 2000, Paul Gray, "Poems of Love and Death: Thom Gunn's Boss Cupid Portrays No Winged Angel," p. 80.
• Times Literary Supplement, September 29, 1961; January 1, 1967; October 5, 1967; April 24, 1969; April 16, 1971; August 30, 1974; July 23, 1982; May 1, 1992, Hugh Haughton, review of The Man with Night Sweats, p. 12; March 18, 1994, Glyn Maxwell, review of Shelf Life: Essays, Memoirs, and an Interview, p. 10; March 10, 2000, Sean O'Brien, review of Boss Cupid, p. 23.
• Village Voice, October 26, 1982, Mark Caldwell.
• Virginia Quarterly Review, autumn, 1992, review of The Man with Night Sweats, p. 136.
• World Literature Today, summer, 1986; summer, 1993, Bernard F. Dick, review of The Man with Night Sweats, p. 612; winter, 1995, James McElroy, review of Collected Poems, p. 147; autumn, 2000, Michael Leddy, review of Boss Cupid, p. 818.
• Yale Review, October, 1992, Phoebe Pettingell, review of The Man with Night Sweats, p. 115.

OTHER

• Interviews with Poets, http://www.interviews-with-poets.com/ (July 23, 2002).

OBITUARIES AND OTHER SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

• Chicago Tribune, April 29, 2004, section 3, p. 9.
• Los Angeles Times, May 2, 2004, p. B14.
• New York Times, April 28, 2004, p. C14.
• San Francisco Chronicle, April 28, 2004, p. B7.
• Times (London, England), April 28, 2004, p. 26.
• Washington Post, May 11, 2004, p. B7.