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The works of ...

... e. e. CUMMINGS

Publication details of me up at does:

 

Other literary works include:

The autobiography - The Enormous Room (1922)
Tulips and Chimneys (1923)
XLI Poems (1925)
The play - Him (1927)
The prose work - Eimi (1933)
Collected Poems (1938)
Poems, 1923-1954 (1954)
73 Poems (1963)
Complete Poems, 1910-1962 (1980)

A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY ...

Born:

Cambridge, Massachusetts October 14, 1894

Early years:

 

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

Cummings-related web-sites:

American Poems

An unofficial e.e. Cummings starting point

The Academy of American Poets

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