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The lifework in verse of one of the century's finest and liveliest American poets, this collection of the poems of J. V. Cunningham (1911-85) documents the poet's development from his early days as an experimental modernist during the Depression to his emergence as the master of the classical plain style -- distinguished by its wit, feeling, and subtlety. Often identified with the epigram -- a genre in which he excelled as distinctively as Jonson, Herrick, and Landor -- Cunningham also wrote in a wide range of other poetic forms and was a remarkable translator. This collection, designed to show the poet's range and skill, incorporates the materials of his 1971 Collected Poems and Epigrams and restores their original arrangement. It also adds many of his later poems and translations and some uncollected pieces from his periodicals. Timothy Steele's notes and introduction assist in re-establishing Cunningham's position as a twentieth-century original, a poet who is remembered equally for emotional power and stylistic purity.

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Author

with an introduction & commentary by Timothy Steele

Publisher

Athens, Ohio: Swallow Press/Ohio University Press

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780804009973

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities

Rating

4.04 / 5 (15 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14