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Published on: 2014-02-11
Released on: 2014-02-11
Original language: English

From the author of American Bloomsbury, Louisa May Alcott, and Home Before Dark, a major reassessment of the life and work of the novelist, painter, and playwright considered to be one of America’s preeminent twentieth-century poets. At the time of his death in 1962, at age sixty-eight, he was, after Robert Frost, the most widely read poet in the United States. E. E. Cummings was and remains controversial. He has been called “a master” (Malcolm Cowley); “hideous” (Edmund Wilson). James Dickey called him a “daringly original poet with more vitality and more sheer uncompromising talent than any other living American writer.” In Susan Cheever’s rich, illuminating biography we see Cummings’s idyllic childhood years in Cambridge, Massachusetts; his Calvinist father—distinguished Harvard professor and sternly religious minister of the Cambridge Congregational Church; his mother—loving, attentive, a source of encouragement, the aristocrat of the family, from Unitarian writers, judges, and adventurers.  We see Cummings—slight, agile, playful, a product of a nineteenth-century New England childhood, bred to be flinty and determined; his love of nature; his sense of fun, laughter, mimicry; his desire from the get-go to stand conventional wisdom on its head, which he himself would often do, literally, to amuse.  At Harvard, he roomed with John Dos Passos; befriended Lincoln Kirstein; read Latin, Greek, and French; earned two degrees; discovered alcohol, fast cars, and burlesque at the Old Howard Theater; and raged against the school’s conservative, exclusionary upper-class rule by A. Lawrence Lowell.  In Cheever’s book we see that beneath Cummings’s blissful, golden childhood the strains of sadness and rage were already at play. He grew into a dark young man and set out on a lifelong course of rebellion against conventional authority and the critical establishment, devouring the poetry of Ezra Pound, whose radical verses pushed Cummings away from the politeness of the traditional nature poem toward a more adventurous, sexually conscious form. We see that Cummings’s self-imposed exile from Cambridge—a town he’d come to hate for its intellectualism, Puritan uptightness, racism, and self-righteous xenophobia—seemed necessary for him as a man and a poet. Headstrong and cavalier, he volunteered as an ambulance driver in World War I, working alongside Hemingway, Joyce, and Ford Madox Ford . . . his ongoing stand against the imprisonment of his soul taking a literal turn when he was held in a makeshift prison for “undesirables and spies,” an experience that became the basis for his novel, The Enormous Room. We follow Cummings as he permanently flees to Greenwich Village to be among other modernist poets of the day—Marianne Moore, Hart Crane, Dylan Thomas—and we see the development of both the poet and his work against the backdrop of modernism and through the influences of his contemporaries: Stein, Amy Lowell, Joyce, and Pound. Cheever’s fascinating book gives us the evolution of an artist whose writing was at the forefront of what was new and daring and bold in an America in transition.(With 28 pages of black-and-white images.) E. E. Cummings - Poems Biography Quotes Free collection of all E. E. Cummings Poems and Biography. See the best poems and poetry by E. E. Cummings. Poetry.org - e e cummings Home What is Poetry Terms in Poetry Famous Poets Poetry Links: e e cummings (18941962) Bio from Biography.com may i feel said he by e e cummings How E.E. Cummings Writes A Poem - YouTube CHECK OUT WISECRACK: goo.gl/OXsb3F HELP ME MAKE MORE VIDEOS: patreon.com/nerdwriter ASK ME QUESTIONS HERE: thenerdwriter.tumblr ... E. E. Cummings - Poet Academy of American Poets E. E. Cummings - Poet - Edward Estlin Cummings is known for his radical experimentation with form punctuation spelling and syntax; he abandoned traditional ... E. E. Cummings - Wikipedia Edward Estlin "E. E." Cummings (October 14 1894 September 3 1962) often styled as e e cummings (in the style of some of his poemssee name and capitalization ... E. E. Cummings: Poems Hello Poetry Edward Estlin Cummings popularly known as E. E. Cummings with the abbreviated form of his name often written by others in all lowercase letters as e. e. cummings ... E.E. Cummings - Biography.com E.E. Cummings was a 20th century poet and novelist known for his innovations in style and structure. E. E. Cummings Poems and Poetry All of E. E. Cummings Poems. E. E. Cummings Poetry Collection from Famous Poets and Poems. e. e. cummings Quotes - BrainyQuote Enjoy the best e. e. cummings Quotes at BrainyQuote. Quotations by e. e. cummings American Poet Born October 14 1894. Share with your friends. E. E. Cummings - E. E. Cummings Poems Best Poems About E. E. Cummings. E. E. Cummings was an american poet painter and author. His body of work encompasses approximately 2900 poems two autobiographical novels ...
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