James Schuyler, 67; Oft-Praised Poet Won Pulitzer Prize in 1981

James Schuyler, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who used anecdotes and humor to depict urban and rural life, has died at age 67.

Schuyler was admitted to a hospital April 5 after a stroke and died Friday, said Amelia Durand, a spokeswoman for his publisher, Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Often praised for his descriptive poems, Schuyler set many works in New York, Vermont and Long Island. He belonged to what became known in the 1960s and 1970s as the New York School of poets.

Schuyler won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for a 117-page volume of poetry titled “The Morning of the Poem.” Over the years, he also was a Guggenheim fellow and a fellow of the American Academy of Poets.

His other books of poetry include “Salute,” “May 24th or So,” “Freely Espousing,” “A Sun Cab,” “Hymn to Life,” “A Few Days” and “Selected Poems.”

Schuyler also wrote prose and children’s fiction.

A native of Chicago, he studied at Bethany College in West Virginia and the University of Florence.

There are no immediate survivors.