Word: cummingses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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E. E. Cummings will deliver his last Charles Eliot Norton Lecture on "i & am & santa claus" at 8 p.m. tonight in Sanders Theatre. The poet is expected to include, under this topic, comments on communism and democracy.
Cummings gave two lectures earlier this semester, and three last term. Those in the fall were "i & my parents," "i & their son," and "i & self-discovery." This term he has spoken on "i & you & us," and "i & now & him."
In each "non-lecture," as Cummings calls them, he had included readings from his own works and those of other contemporary and classical poets. In his last talk Cummings discussed the role of the artist and his means of bridging the chasm which exists between the artist and his audience...
The shop grew slowly in stock but not in size, and in 1945 just after Wake Magazine published a special issue on E.E. Cummings, Theodore Spencer came into the Grolier. Spencer wanted to continue the interest in Cummings stimulated by the Wake issue with an exhibition of the lower case...
The poet discussed the three mysteries of love, heart, and self-transcendence, saying that "the ultimate source of mysteries is love," and the lover is "the incarnation of mystery." Art, for Cummings, is a mystery which may be divulged only through love.