Poems Of J.V. Cunningham - Softcover

Cunningham, James Vincent

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804009988 ISBN 13: 9780804009980

Verlag: Ohio University Press, 1997

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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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<div><p><b>Timothy Steele&#8217;s</b> previous collections of poetry include <i>The Color Wheel</i> and <i>Sapphics and Uncertainties: Poems 1970&#8211;1986</i>. He has also published two widely discussed works of literary criticism, <i>Missing Measures: Modern Poetry and the Revolt against Meter</i> and <i>All the Fun&#8217;s in How You Say a Thing: An Explanation of Meter and Versification</i>. He is a professor of English at California State University, Los Angeles. For more information, visit his <a href="http://instructional1.calstatela.edu/tsteele/">website</a>.</p></div>

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The lifework in verse of one of the finest and liveliest American poets of the twentieth century, this collection of the poems of J.V. Cunningham (1911-1958) documents the poet's development from his early days as an experimental modernist during the Depression to his later emergence as a master of the classical 'pain style, ' distinguished by its wit, feeling, and subtlety.

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• Verlag: Ohio University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0804009988
• ISBN 13: 9780804009980
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 253
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