Great Regulars: William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman,

Alfred Tennyson, George B. Shaw, Marianne Moore and Robert Graves, for example, all met their end "ripe with time and full of years." Among contemporary poets, Adrienne Rich, Maya Angelou, and Richard Wilbur are writing and publishing into their 80s.

But perhaps the poet who best epitomizes this phenomenon of longevity is Stanley Kunitz, who had a long and illustrious career and was considered by many to be the most distinguished American poet at the time of his death in 2006 at the age of 100.

from Anthony Maulucci: Norwich Bulletin: On Poetry: Some poets continue writing well into late years of life

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