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E. E. Cummings
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American author (1894–1962)
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E. E. Cummings was an American poet, painter, playwright, and writer born Edward Estlin Cummings in Cambridge in 1894. He was educated at Harvard University and was a member of the Republican Party. His literary work is associated with modernist literature and surrealism, and he was influenced by Gertrude Stein and Amy Lowell.
Cummings received the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Bollingen Prize. He was a member of the Academy of American Poets and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His notable works include *And*, *Chanson innocent*, *Kyodai na heya*, *Is 5*, and *The enormous room*.
He practiced Unitarianism and spoke American English. Cummings died in 1962 and was buried at Forest Hills Cemetery. His works are held in the collections of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Portrait Gallery, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1894
- Died
- 1962
- Works
- 178
Top works
- And
- Chanson innocent
- [Collection of books from the library of E.E. Cummings]
- Kyodai na heya
- Is 5
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Edward
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Cambridge
- Occupation
- novelist
- Political party
- Republican Party (United States)
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- American English
- Religion
- Unitarianism
- Genre
- modernist literature
- Movement
- surrealism
- Image
- E. E. Cummings NYWTS.jpg
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- E. E. Cummings
- date of birth
- 1894-10-14
- date of death
- 1962-09-03
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- E. E. Cummings
- member of
- American Academy of Arts and Letters
- Commons gallery
- E. E. Cummings
- influenced by
- Amy Lowell
- birth name
- Edward Estlin Cummings
- has works in the collection
- Fogg Museum
- place of burial
- Forest Hills Cemetery
- writing language
- English language
- start of work period
- 1922-00-00
- different from
- Elijah Cummings
- archives at
- Harry Ransom Center
- personal library at
- Harry Ransom Center
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Encyclopedic overview
Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962), commonly known as e e cummings or E. E. Cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. During World War I, he worked as an ambulance driver and was imprisoned in an internment camp, which provided the basis for his novel The Enormous Room (1922). The following year he published his first collection of poetry, Tulips and Chimneys, which showed his early experiments with grammar and typography. He wrote four plays, the most successful of which were HIM (1927) and Santa Claus: A Morality (1946). He wrote EIMI (1933), a travelog of the Soviet Union, and delivered the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures in poetry, published as i—six nonlectures (1953). Fairy Tales (1965), a collection of short stories, was published posthumously.
Cummings wrote approximately 2,900 poems. He is often regarded as one of the most important American poets of the 20th century. He is associated with modernist free-form poetry, and much of his work uses idiosyncratic syntax and lower-case spellings for poetic expression. M. L. Rosenthal wrote:
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