Word: cummingses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stressing the natural value of the individual, E. E. Cummings '15 delivered his fifth Charles Eliot Norton Lecture in Sanders Theatre last night.
Cummings began by reading from his own "him," and discussed the character of him as comparable to the artist of today. This artist is seen as "impelled by a fidelity to his own values," a man creating across the chasm of his individuality. "A poet," Cummings said, "is one who...
E. E. Cummings '15 delivers his fifth Charles Eliot Norton lecture tonight in Sanders Theatre at 8 p.m. The lecture, entitled "i and now and him," continues the second series of 1952-3 lectures.
Cummings, current Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, has published nine volumes of poetry since 1923. "The Enormous Room," a novel based on his war experience, came out in 1922.
Last night, while E. E. Cummings was continuing his "egocentric exploration of himself," dozens of would-be listeners were exploring various futile ways of gaining entrance to Sanders Theatre. Most of those who arrived at 7:50 and later, finding the hall filled to fire-law capacity, fruitlessly alternated between...