the 1960s, commented that Cunningham "must be one of the most accomplished poets alive, and one of the few of whom it can be said that he will still be worth reading in fifty years' time." Though his style and reserve were very much at odds with fashions of the period in which he wrote, they are all the more striking for that fact. Cunningham was awarded Guggenheim fellowships in 1959-60 and 1966–67 and received a Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets in 1976. He won grants from the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1965 and the National Endowment for the Arts in 1966. Some of his poems have been set to music by the English composer Robin Holloway. Works Poetry For My Contemporaries (1939) The Helmsman (1942) The Judge Is Fury (1947) Doctor Drink (1950) Trivial, Vulgar, and Exalted: Epigrams (1957) The Exclusions of a Rhyme (1960) To What Strangers, What Welcome (1964) Some Salt: Poems and Epigrams (1967) Let Thy Words Be Few (1986) The Poems of J. V. Cunningham (1997) Prose Tradition and Poetic Structure (1960) The Journal of John Cardan, [with] The Quest of the Opal [and] The Problem of Form (1964) The Collected Essays of J. V. Cunningham, Swallow, Chicago (1976) Other Let Thy Words be Few, Gullans Symposium Press (1988) The Problem of Style, Fawcett, New York (1966) The Exclusion of Rhyme (1960) A Bibliography of the Published Works of J. V. Cunningham, Charles B. Gullans (1973) Dickinson: Lyric and Legend, Sylvester & Orphanos (1980) References External links Joseph Bottum, "America's Best Forgotten Poet: The Poems of J. V. Cunningham" (inc Epigram examples), in the Weekly Standard, February 16, 1998. Biography of J. V. Cunningham at Academy of American Poets Profile on by Poetry Foundation trans.'Essay on True&Apparent Beauty by Pierre Nicole' inc 'Exclusions of a Rhyme' Guide to the James Vincent Cunningham Papers 1931-1947 at the University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center 1911 births 1985 deaths Brandeis University faculty Harvard University staff Stanford University alumni Washington University in St. Louis faculty University of Chicago faculty People from Cumberland, Maryland Poets from Maryland Writers from Denver 20th-century American poets