James Schuyler

[1] After graduating high school, Schuyler attended Bethany College in West Virginia from 1941 to 1943, though he was not a very successful student; in a later interview, he recalled, "I just played bridge all the time.

"[2] Schuyler moved to New York City in the late 1940s where he worked for NBC and first befriended W. H. Auden.

[2] After returning to the United States and settling in New York City, he roomed with John Ashbery and Frank O'Hara.

Schuyler was manic depressive,[3] underwent several years of psychoanalysis and withstood many traumatic experiences.

[4] In a spring 1990 special issue of the Denver Quarterly that was written by Barbara Guest in devotion to Schuyler's work, Guest refers to Schuyler as an "intimist," saying: ... for me Jimmy is the Vuillard of us, he withholds his secret, the secret thing until the moment appears to reveal it.

He evaluates the ordinary and the way it works in relation to other things: "It's the water in the drinking glass the tulips are in./ It's a day like any other.

Schuyler recalls Ralph Waldo Emerson's transcendentalism, and uses nature to express himself in the elegy.

Schuyler also received the Longview Foundation Award in 1961, and the Frank O'Hara Prize for Poetry in 1969 for Freely Espousing.

Numerous works by Schuyler, including books, plays, recordings, and other pieces have been published throughout the years.