Pulitzer Prize winning poet James Schuyler was a central member of the New York School. Freely Espousing, Schuyler’s first major collection of poetry, was published in 1969 at the age of 46. His other major collections include The Crystal Lithium (1972), Hymn to Life (1974), The Morning of the Poem (1980), and A Few Days (1985). Schuyler also wrote novels, including Alfred and Guinevere (1958), A Nest of Ninnies, with John Ashbery (1969), and What’s for Dinner (1978). In addition to the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Schuyler received the Longview Foundation Award in 1961, the Frank O'Hara Prize for Poetry in 1969, a Whiting Award in Poetry in 1985, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Fellowship from the American Academy of Poets. He passed away in 1991.
