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. E. Cummings had done a lot of drawings as well as paintings. He is best known as the preeminent voice of 20th century poetry.

E. E. Cummings Media

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  Masthead from volume 56 of The Harvard Monthly; Cummings was an editor and contributor to this literary journal while at Harvard

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  Grave of poet E. E. Cummings, located at Forest Hills Cemetery in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.

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  Sketched self-portrait circa 1920

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  "the hours rise up" on a wall in Leiden

References

• Bloom, Harold, Twentieth-century American literature, New York : Chelsea House Publishers, 1985-1988. ISBN 9780877548027.
• Cohen, Milton A. (1987). POETandPAINTER: The Aesthetics of E. E. Cummings' Early Work. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 9780814318454.
• Friedman, Norman (editor), E. E. Cummings: A Collection of Critical Essays. ISBN 9780982973301
• Friedman, Norman, E. E. Cummings: The Art of his Poetry.
• James, George, E. E. Cummings: A Bibliography.
• Kennedy, Richard S. (October 17, 1994) [1980]. Dreams in the Mirror (2nd ed.). New York: Liveright. ISBN 087140155X.
• McBride, Katharine, A Concordance to the Complete Poems of E.E.Cummings.
• Mott, Christopher. "The Cummings Line on Race Archived 2009-02-24 at the Wayback Machine." Spring: The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society, vol. 4, pp. 71–75, Fall 1995.
• Norman, Charles, E. E. Cummings: The Magic-Maker, Boston, Little Brown, 1972.
• Sawyer-Lauçanno, Christopher, E. E. Cummings: A Biography, Sourcebooks, Inc. (2004) ISBN 9781570717758.

Other websites

• Works by E. E. Cummings at Project Gutenberg
• E. E. Cummings, Lifelong Unitarian Archived 2006-09-02 at the Wayback Machine Biography of Cummings and his relationship with Unitarianism
• Papers of E. E. Cummings at the Houghton Library at Harvard University
• E. E. Cummings Collection Archived 2008-05-16 at the Wayback Machine at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin
• Poems by E. E. Cummings at PoetryFoundation.org
• The paintings of E. E. Cummings
• Jonathan Yardley, E. E. Cummings: A Biography, Sunday, October 17, 2004, Page BW02, The Washington Post Book Review
• Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno, E. E. Cummings: A Biography, Sourcebooks, Inc., 2004, 606 pages, ISBN 9781570717758
• SPRING:The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society Archived 2011-10-28 at the Wayback Machine
• Modern American Poetry Archived 2011-10-28 at the Wayback Machine
• American Poems, 153 poems listed with user comments