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COLLECTED POEMS-E. E. Cummings- Harcourt, Brace ($3).
Among the various plenties that abound in the U. S., the most indigenous and widespread is the plenty of Nothing that almost any U. S. citizen will admit he's got. This inexhaustible national resource is the inspiration of many a popular song (Nobody's Sweetheart; I Got...
Born in Cambridge, Mass. in 1894, Poet Cummings first made his literary presence felt with a novel, The Enormous Room (1922), written after he had served in an ambulance unit and as a private in the World War. Readers of the book, which gave some remarkably detailed dirt on life...
But with 315 of his most representative Poems now Collected, readers will realize that Cummings' technical unconventionalities have been essential from the start. Only with such assistance could he have made words bespeak his all but ineffable theme: the all-importance-for good men and true poets-of being...
In 1933, soon after Homer Stille Cummings became Attorney General, his department again started gunning for Alcoa. As a private lawyer, Mr. Cummings had lost a court skirmish with the aluminum company; hardly had he moved to Washington when the Government accused old Andrew Mellon of tax evasion, his chief...