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J.V. Cunningham

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James Vincent Cunningham
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Aug. 23, 1911, Cumberland, Md., U.S.
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March 30, 1985, Waltham, Mass. (aged 73)
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J.V. Cunningham (born Aug. 23, 1911, Cumberland, Md., U.S.—died March 30, 1985, Waltham, Mass.) was an American poet and antimodernist literary critic whose terse, epigrammatic verse is full of sorrow and wit. His antimodernist stance is evident in his detailed criticisms of his own poetry. Cunningham grew up in Montana and studied poetry with Yvor Winters at Stanford University (A.B., 1934; Ph.D., 1945). He taught at several universities before settling at Brandeis University in 1953. The Helmsman (1942) and The Judge Is Fury (1947) offer a mix of his early and mature poetry. In The Quest of the Opal: A ...(100 of 178 words)

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