BURNSHAW, STANLEY

(b. 1906)

   American poet and publisher. His father, Ludwig Burnshaw was a teacher of Greek and Latin who become director of an orphanage, and later of a boarding school. After studying at Columbia University, he went to the University of Pittsburgh. When working as an advertising apprentice for a still mill, he founded Poetry Folio. He later studied in France. His writings include Andri Spire and His Poetry: Two Essays and Forty Translations, The Iron Land, Early and Late Testament, Caged in an Animal's Mind, In the Terrified Radiance and Mirages: Travel Notes in the Promised Land: A Public Poem.