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Cheever, Susan.
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Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962.
Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Cheever, Susan.
Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962.
Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century -- Biography.
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E.E. Cummings : a
life
/ Susan Cheever.
by
Cheever, Susan.
Pantheon Books, [2014]
Call #:
921 C9711c
Subjects
Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962.
Poets, American
--
20th
century
--
Biography
.
Greenwich
Village
(
New
York
,
N
.Y.)
--
Intellectual
life
--
20th
century
--
Biography
.
ISBN:
9780307379979 (hc.)
0307379973 (hc.)
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
xvii, 213 pages, 28 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [191]-200) and index.
Contents:
Preface: A visit to the masters school
--
Odysseus returns to Cambridge
--
104 Irving Street
--
Harvard
--
The Western Front
--
The enormous room
--
Greenwich
Village
: Elaine and Nancy
--
Anne Barton and Josef Stalin
--
Eimi and Marion Morehouse
--
No thanks
--
Ezra Pound and Santa Claus
--
Rebecca and Nancy
--
"I think I am falling in love with you"
--
Readings : a
new
career
--
Victory and defeat
--
Coda: Cummings's reputation in the twenty-first
century
--
Afterword: Patchin place.
Summary:
"A major reassessment of the
life
and work of Edward Estlin Cummings, the novelist, painter, and playwright considered to be one of America's preeminent twentieth-century poets. Cummings was and remains controversial. We see his idyllic childhood years in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his sternly religious father and his loving, attentive mother. We see Cummings--slight, agile, playful, a product of a nineteenth-century
New
England childhood; his love of nature; his sense of fun, laughter, mimicry; his desire from the get-go to stand conventional wisdom on its head. At Harvard, he earned two degrees, discovered alcohol, fast cars, and burlesque, and raged against the school's exclusionary upper-class rule. He grew into a dark young man and set out on a lifelong course of rebellion against conventional authority. Headstrong and cavalier, he volunteered as an ambulance driver in World War I, working alongside Hemingway and Joyce. He permanently fled to
Greenwich
Village
to be among other modernist poets of the day, and we see the development of both the poet and his work against the backdrop of modernism. The evolution of an artist whose writing was at the forefront of what was
new
and daring"--From publisher description.
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