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E.E. Cummings (born October 14, 1894, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.—died September 3, 1962, North Conway, New Hampshire) was an American poet and painter who first attracted attention, in an age of literary experimentation, for his unconventional punctuation and phrasing.
Famous poet / e.e. cummings. 1894-1962 • Ranked #8 in the top 500 poets. One of the most popular poets of the 20th century, his verses have inspired countless readers. His total body of work includes nearly 3,000 poems. He preferred his name abbreviated in all lowercase letters.
Apr 2, 2014 · E.E. Cummings was an innovative poet known for his lack of stylistic and structural conformity, as seen in volumes like Tulips and Chimneys and XLI Poems. After self-publishing for much of...
Edward Estlin (E.E.) Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He attended the Cambridge Latin High School, where he studied Latin and Greek. Cummings earned both his BA and MA from Harvard, and his earliest poems were published in Eight Harvard Poets (1917). As one of...
E. E. Cummings - The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets. Edward Estlin Cummings is known for his radical experimentation with form, punctuation, spelling, and syntax; he abandoned traditional techniques and structures to ...
By The Editors. Portrait by Sophie Herxheimer. E.E. Cummings may be most remembered for his gleeful love poems with their sensuous use of language and his visual inventiveness and Modernist style. He was a highly innovative writer and painter, who borrowed concepts from the world of Modernist painting and sculpture to influence his poems.
e.e. cummings grew up a Unitarian. His life embodied endless conflict between radical individualism and faith in love. The following biography reveals the volcano of his uniquely creative soul.
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