somewhere I have never traveled,gladly beyond | Critical Overview
When discussing the critical reception of “somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond,” one should first examine cummings’s overall reputation, since his poetry has often been described in absolute positive or negative terms, especially in the first half of his career when he wrote “somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond.” Cummings’s unique structural style and unconventional use of punctuation was disturbing to many of his contemporary critics, and people tended to either love his poetry or hate it. As R. P. Blackmur notes in his influential 1931 article for the...
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