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Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Susan Cheever traces the development of the poet and his work. She takes us from Cummings seemingly idyllic childhood in Cambridge, Massachusetts, through his years at Harvard where the radical verse of Ezra Pound lured the young writer away from the politeness of the traditional nature poem, and towards a more adventurous, sexually conscious form.
13) Selected poems
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
The one hundred and fifty-six poems selected are arranged in twelve sections, with introductions for each section.
Author
Language
English
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"In 1917, after the entry of America into World War I, E. E. Cummings, a recent graduate of Harvard College, volunteered to serve on an ambulance corps in France. Arrived in Paris with a new friend, William Slater Brown, the two young men set about living it up in the big city before heading off to their assignment. Once in the field, they wrote irreverent letters about their experiences which attracted the attention of the censors and ultimately...
