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Edward Estlin Cummings, commonly known as e e cummings or E. E. Cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. He was an ambulance driver during World War I and was in an internment camp, which provided the basis for his novel The Enormous Room (1922). The following year he published his first collection of poetry ...
E. E. Cummings. 1894 –. 1962. somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond. any experience, your eyes have their silence: in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near. your slightest look easily will unclose me. though i have closed myself as fingers,
E.E. Cummings. Edward Estlin Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October 14, 1894. He began writing poems as early as 1904 and studied Latin and Greek at the Cambridge Latin High School. He received his BA in 1915 and his MA in 1916, both from Harvard University. His studies there introduced him to the poetry of avant-garde ...
100 Selected Poems by E. E. Cummings. 527.9k. I Like My Body When It Is With Your. E. E. Cummings. I Like My Body When It Is With Your. i like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more. i like your body. i like what it does, i like its hows. i like to feel the spine of your body and its bones ...
Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962), popularly known as E. E. Cummings, with the abbreviated form of his name often written by others in lowercase letters as e.e. cummings (in the style of some of his poems—see name and capitalization, below), was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. His body of work encompasses approximately 2,900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays and several essays, as well as numerous drawings and paintings.
E.E. Cummings: A Biography is a definitive account of the poet's turbulent life, a 600-page saga that includes some of the most colorful personalities of the Modernist period: Hart Crane and Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore and John Dos Passos. Cummings, born in 1894, was part of the generation that returned from World War I ready to demolish Victorian illusions and experiment with all kinds of liberation, sexual and social as well as literary.
Apr 16, 2022 · laugh, leaning back in my arms. for life’s not a paragraph. And death i think is no parenthesis. This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on April 16, 2022, by the Academy of American Poets. [since feeling is first] - since feeling is first / who pays any attention.
