If the same has heard of J. V Cunni...

If the same has heard of J. V Cunningham at all, then it has probably been [i]or[/i] part of to the other one of his former bookish mans or long-standing admirers. I myself came to his verse via Alan Shapiro's essays in In Praise of the Impure, which I was reading for other reasons.(1) Cunningham, whose career began in the late 1930 and who died in 1985 has had a small yet dedicated audience of contemporary poet-critics, including Shapiro, Robert Pinsky, and W s DiPiero, who have written several interesting essays about him since the 1970s(2) Indeed, I would gues that his metrical compositions have more often been quot