E.E. Cummings: A Biography

Type

Book

Authors

Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno

ISBN 10

1570717753

ISBN 13

9781570717758

Tags

Authors, Criticism & Theory, Poetry, United States

Abstract

Throughout the forty-five years of his professional writing life, Edward Estlin Cummings consistently celebrated the ordinary, reviled pretentiousness, scourged conformity, experimented boldly with words and syntax and punctuation, and wrote some of the most erotic and tender love poetry in the English language. Yet Cummings could also be difficult, truculent, opinionated, wrong-headed, emotional, bigoted and egotistical. Dubbed by Ezra Pound as "Whitman's one living descendant," Cummings sang of himself and of America in a unique voice, as resonant now as it was a half-century ago.

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