Word: cummingses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The title of Cummings' dissertation was "I and my family." "I can't tell you what I don't know," he said, "so I'll tell you something about myself."
Last night Cummings read William Wordsworth's "Recollections of Childhood."
"I am not lecturing," E. E. Cummings '15 told a packed Sanders Theatre audience last night in the first Charles Eliot Norton Lecture. "Lecturing means teaching, and I am learning."
Cummings said he would not attempt to analyze poetry. He will, however, devote fifteen minutes of each lecture to reading poetry "I am in no way connected with. That will leave thirty-five minutes to ramble on about myself."
Cummings served in World War I and wrote a book on his war experiences, "The Enormous Room," published in 1922. He has published nine volumes of poetry since 1923.