Cummings, E. E.
Cummings, E. E. , Edward Estlin Cummings ( 1894 – 1962 ),American poet, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard. His first book, The Enormous Room ( 1922 ), an account of his three-month internment in a French detention camp in 1917 , won him an immediate international reputation for its brilliant prose and its iconoclastic views, with Dos Passos , Robert Graves , T. E. Lawrence , and V. Larbaud among its earliest admirers. In 1923 appeared Tulips and Chimneys, the first of 12 volumes of poetry. Strongly influenced by the English Romantic poets, by Swinburne , and by Pound , and marked by Dada and the jazz age, the early poems attracted attention more for their experimental typography and technical skill than for their considerable lyric power; the frankness of his vocabulary and the sharpness of his satire also created some scandal. In Eimi ( 1933 ), a...
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