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Cummings, famed for his unique of punctuation and capitalization, succeeds composer Aaron Copland in post. His appointment in for one year, effective July 1.
It is not known what course Cummings will teach. The main function the Norton Professor is to deliver eight Charles Eliot Norton Lectures. He is also required to give a spring half term course.
E. E. Cummings '15, noted American poet and painter, has been appointed Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry for next year, the University announced recently.
Born in Cambridge in 1894, Cummings received his A.B. here in 1915 and Masters degree in 1916. During World War I, while serving with the Nor Harjes Ambulance Corp, he was detained for three months in a French prison camp. Out of this experience came first book, "The Enormous Room...
Throughout his life, Cummings has been interested in a variety of literary and art forms, Examples extend to plays--"Him," first performed in 1928, and "Santa Claus: A Morality," written 1946; a ballet, "Tom," written in 19 and based on "Uncle Tom's Cabin"; and a collection of pictures, done...