In addition to writing beautiful, confusingly punctuated poems, e.e. cummings was an enthusiastic backer of his era's most regrettable social trends, including Joe McCarthy's Red Scare. He once wrote ...
Unlike many well-known poets, E. E. Cummings and James Laughlin didn’t write with metaphysical or philosophical ambition. But that doesn’t mean their poetry doesn’t matter. Cummings wrote verse ...
E. E. Cummings: A Life, by Susan Cheever. Pantheon Books. 240 pages. $26.95. E. E. Cummings: Complete Poems, 1904–1962, edited by George James Firmage. Liveright ...
far from the splendor and squalor of hurrying cities. . . — "Poem 77" from "95 Poems," by E.E. Cummings The imaginative scope and literary ambition of Edward Estlin Cummings, a central figure in ...
Edward Estlin Cummings’ father, a Congregational minister, shocked his staid parishioners in Boston’s Old South Church one Sunday by crying from the pulpit: “The Kingdom of Heaven is no spiritual roof ...
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Early in 1931, in his 37th year, Edward Estlin Cummings published an extraordinary book. No writer of note had ever done anything like it before (and few have since). Titled CIOPW, it collected ...
See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Today marks the 103rd birthday of renowned American poet Edward Estlin ...
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