Word: cummingses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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E. E. Cummings '15, this year's Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, will give a reading of his work at 8 p.m. tonight in the Agassiz Theatre. The reading is sponsored by the Student Government Association for Radcliffe students and their dates: admission is free.
This week Poetry celebrates its 40th anniversary with an oversize, 95-page issue. Editor-Poet Karl Shapiro wrote his best contributors, asking for gems. Though the issue shines with famous names in contemporary poetry-W. H. Auden, E. E. Cummings, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams-most of the...
Auden's poem is probably the best of the lot: a description of "a plain without a feature," where masses of men march to the command of a dictator and nobody knows "Of any world where promises were kept/Or one could weep because another wept." But even this poem...
Two former purchasing agents, William J. McKinney and David H. Cummings, recalled something, too: Stevenson had arranged for a special political fund after he was elected. They thought it was used to support Stevenson's candidates for the legislature and to pay some of his own political expenses. The...
Born in Cambridge in 1894, Cummings received his A.B. here in 1915. He served in World War I and from his experiences in a French prison camp came his first book, "The Enormous Room," published in 1922.