Poems Of J.V. Cunningham - Softcover

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<div><p>The lifework in verse of one of the century&#8217;s finest and liveliest American poets, this collection of the poems of J. V. Cunningham (1911-85) documents the poet&#8217;s development from his early days as an experimental modernist during the Depression to his emergence as the master of the classical &#8220;plain style&#8221;&#8212;distinguished by its wit, feeling, and subtlety.<br><br>Often identified with the epigram&#8212;a genre in which he excelled as distinctively as Jonson, Herrick, and Landor&#8212;Cunningham also wrote in a wide range of other poetic forms and was a remarkable translator. This collection, designed to show the poet&#8217;s range and skill, incorporates the materials of his 1971 <i>Collected Poems and Epigrams</i> and restores their original arrangement. It also adds many of his later poems and translations and some uncollected pieces from his periodicals.<br><br>Timothy Steele&#8217;s notes and introduction assist in re-establishing Cunningham&#8217;s position as a twentieth-century original, a poet who is remembered equally for emotional power and stylistic purity.</p></div>

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