Publication details of me up at does: |
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Other literary works include: |
The autobiography - The Enormous Room (1922) |
Born: |
Cambridge, Massachusetts October 14, 1894 |
Early years: |
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Schooling: |
He received his B.A. in 1915 and his M.A. in 1916, both from Harvard. |
Career: |
Known for typographic innovation, Cummings controlled both the look and the content of his poems. His first published poems, which appeared in 1917, already featured experimental verse forms and a lower-casing of the first person singular, "I". The lower case was intended to signify humility and was carried over into his own preferred rendition of his name as e e cummings. His first book, The Enormous Room (1922), an autobiographical prose work which immediately earned him an international reputation. |
Final years: |
He continued to write prolifically, as well as composing prose pieces, plays and a ballet. In 1958, he received the Bollingen Prize for poetry. At the time of his death in 1962, he was the second most widely read poet in the United States, after Robert Frost. |
Died: |
September 3, 1962 |
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