Title: The poems of J.V. Cunningham /
Authors: Cunningham, J. V. 1911-1985.; Steele, Timothy; Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library).
Publisher: Swallow Press/Ohio University Press,
Year: 1997
Subjects: American poetry
Abstract: "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 (1911-1985) 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 "plain style," distinguished by its wit, feeling, and subtlety." "Often identified with the epigram - a genre in which he excelled as distinctively as Johnson, Herrick, and LandorCunningham also wrote in a wide range of other poetic forms and was as well a remarkable translator. This volume incorporates the materials of his 1971 Collected Poems and Epigrams and adds many of his later poems and translations. Included, too, are some interesting early pieces that appeared in periodicals but have never before been collected in a book."--Jacket.
Contents: Lector Aere Perennior -- The Wandering Scholar's Prayer to St. Catherine of Egypt -- The Dogdays -- Elegy for a Cricket -- All Choice Is Error -- Obsequies for a Poetess -- The Symposium -- The Beacon -- Fancy -- The Helmsman: An Ode -- Hymn in Adversity -- A Moral Poem -- Timor Dei -- Choice -- Summer Idyll -- For My Contemporaries -- Epigrams -- August Hail -- Montana Pastoral -- This Tower of Sun -- Autumn -- Reason and Nature -- L'Esprit de Geometrie et L'Esprit de Finesse -- Bookplate -- The Phoenix -- In Innocence -- Noon -- Distinctions at Dusk -- Ripeness Is All -- The Chase -- Coffee -- To a Friend, on Her Examination for the Doctorate in English -- Passion -- The Metaphysical Amorist -- Envoi -- Not for Charity -- The Predestined Space -- Acknowledgement -- Ars Amoris -- Haecceity -- Convalescence -- To My Daimon -- The Man of Feeling -- The Solipsist -- Agnosco Veteris Vestigia Flammae -- Distraction -- Meditation on Statistical Method -- Meditation on a Memoir --^