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Chatauqua comes to the University tonight, at least at first glance. No less than five lectures, including the second in the Charles Eliot Norton series given this year by E. E. Cummings '15, will be on tap here.
Cummings speaks at 8 p.m. in Sanders Theatre. Continuing in the vein in which he opened last month (i and my parents), Cummings tonight offers "i and their son." He will read selected poems at the conclusion of the talk.
He has always gone his own way. His integrity is as iron-clad as that of the man in his poem: my specialty is living said a man (who could not earn his bread because he would not sell his head) An editor to whom he offered five poems sent...
His credo, which appeared early - "i would/ suggest that certain ideas gestures/ rhymes, like Gillette Razor Blades/ hav ing been used and reused/ to the mystical moment of dullness emphatically are/ Not To Be Resharpened" - left many "tra ditional" poets blitzed and unforgiving. He is antiscientific : I'd rather...
At 58, Cummings says he is glad he is not younger; his generation had something to revolt against, the new generations have only anarchy. He spends his summers on a farm in New Hampshire, inherited from his mother. There are over 300 acres of woodland, which he has left strictly...