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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."
In his first lecture, Cummings spoke about his father and mother. In the future, he will discuss himself, when he ceased being dependent on his parents. He will talk about his "self-discovery" and, finally, his stance as a poet.