CRITICISM

Cohen, Milton A. “Perception: Seeing the Whole Surface.” In Poet and Painter: The Aesthetics of E. E. Cummings' s Early Work, pp. 85-115. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1987.

Discusses Cummings’s early interest in the science of perception and its influence on his literary and artistic aesthetic.

Cureton, Richard D. “Visual Form in e. e. cummings’ No Thanks.” Word and Image: A Journal of Verbal Visual Enquiry (July-September 1986): 245-77.

Explores the meaning and significance of Cummings’s visual form in his most experimental volume of poetry.

Kennedy, Richard S. “The Emergent Styles.” In Dreams in the Mirror: A Biography of E. E. Cummings, pp. 115-32. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1980.

Explores the period of time when Cummings developed and refined the styles for which he would later become noted.

Miller, Lewis H., Jr. “Advertising in Poetry: A Reading of E. E. Cummings’ ‘Poem, or Beauty Hurts Mr Vinal’.” Word and Image: A Journal of Verbal Visual Enquiry 2, no. 4 (October-December 1986): 349-62.

Analyzes and explains the allusions to advertisements in “Poem, or Beauty Hurts Mr Vinal.”

Additional coverage of Cummings’s life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: American Writers; Authors and Artists for Young Adults, Vol. 41; Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography, 1929-1941; Contemporary Authors, Vols. 73-76; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vol. 31; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vols. 1, 3, 8, 12, 15, 68; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 4, 48; DISCovering Authors; DISCovering Authors: British Edition; DISCovering Authors: Canadian Edition; DISCovering Authors Modules: Multicultural Authors, and Poets; DISCovering Authors 3.0; Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century, Ed. 3; Exploring Poetry; Literature Resource Center; Major 20th-Century Writers, Eds. 1, 2; Poetry Criticism, Vol. 5; Poetry for Students, Vols. 1, 3, 12, 13; Poets: American and British; Reference Guide to American Literature, Ed. 4; Twayne's United States Authors; and World Literature Criticism World Poets.