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E.E. Cummings. Writer: Great Performances. Edward Estlin Cummings had an idyllic childhood in a spacious Cambridge home amid an affluent, extended family. His father, Edward Cummings, was a Unitarian minister and former Harvard professor who devoted much time to Estlin with spontaneous children's games and rituals. Estlin often went to the circus, zoo, and Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, and ...
Cummings, E. E. Poet of satire, love, and lower-case letters, Edward Estlin Cummings was born on 14 October 1894 at his home at 104 Irving Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the Reverend Edward Cummings and Rebecca Haswell Cummings. To distinguish between the two Edwards, the son was called by his middle name, becoming known as Estlin to ...
Jan 30, 2014 · By Susan Cheever. January 30, 2014. During the last years of his life E. E. Cummings made a modest living on the high-school lecture circuit. In the spring of 1958 his schedule took him to read ...
E. E. Cummings. Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962) or best known as E. E. Cummings was an American poet. He is also known for his works as a painter, essayist, author, and playwright. He had created about 2,900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays and several essays. E.
Mar 10, 2014 · Alan Cheuse reviews E.E. Cummings: A Life, a new biography by Susan Cheever, and discusses the origins of his own fascination with the American poet. MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: Spring 1958, the poet ...
First comprehensive life of one of the twentieth century's greatest poetic innovators E.E. Cummings is best remembered as one of the first poets of the twentieth century to successfully unite poetic tradition with the avant garde; endlessly experimenting with the poetic form, and producing volumes of playfully iconoclastic verse.
Edward Estlin Cummings ( Cambridge, 14 de outubro de 1894 — Nova Hampshire, 3 de setembro de 1962 ), usualmente abreviado como e. e. cummings, em minúsculas, como o poeta assinava e publicava, [ 1] foi um poeta, pintor, ensaísta e dramaturgo norte-americano. Tendo sido, principalmente, poeta, é considerado por Augusto de Campos um dos ...
