Word: cummingses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Recently, new honors have come to him in a rush: the Harriet Monroe Poetry Award at the University of Chicago, the Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets, and the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry at Harvard, where Cummings (who graduated in 1915) will give six lectures, beginning this...
The very things in his work that have set the conventional-minded to spluttering with outrage have made Cummings a writ ers' writer and a particular idol of the young. A few years ago, when Cummings went to Bennington College in Vermont to give a reading, the entire audience...
Buffalo Bill's defunct who used to ride a water smooth-silver stallion and break onetwothreej our five pigeonsjustlikethat Jesus he was a handsome man and what i want to know is how do you like your blueeyed boy Mister Death At Bennington as in other schools, Cummings'...
Cummings himself wrote: "I can express it in 15 words, by quoting The Eternal Question and Immortal Answer of Burlesk, viz., 'Would you hit a woman with a child? - No, I'd hit her with a brick.' Like the burlesk comedian, I am abnormally fond of that...
The Enormous Room is one of the few classics in English that was inspired by World War I; it was out of Cummings' own experience in a French war prison. Eimi (Greek for I am), re cently republished, is the journal of Cummings' trip to Russia in 1931...