Edward Estlin Cummings[e._e._cummings]

City of Residence: Cambridge, Massachusetts
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13 : Tulips and Chimneys
Poetry 2016-08-10 (8863 hits)

a clown's smirk in the skull of a baboon :
Poetry 2005-06-10 (11503 hits)

a man who had fallen among thieves :
Poetry 2005-06-10 (10706 hits)

a pretty a day :
Poetry 2009-06-13 (10295 hits)

all ignorance toboggans into know :
Poetry 2005-06-10 (10863 hits)

all in green :
Poetry 2005-06-04 (12344 hits)

all which isn't singing is mere talking :
Poetry 2005-06-10 (10787 hits)

am was :
Poetry 2009-06-13 (10011 hits)

anyone lived in a pretty how town :
Poetry 2003-11-03 (11195 hits)

as freedom is a breakfastfood :
Poetry 2009-06-13 (9779 hits)

Ballad of the Scholar's Lament :
Poetry 2005-06-04 (12413 hits)

Bătrîna Scumpa Mea Etcetera :
Poetry 2006-07-25 (15793 hits)

because i love you)last night :
Poetry 2005-06-10 (12020 hits)

Buffalo Bill :
Poetry 2005-06-04 (11608 hits)

Buffalo Bill :
Poetry 2006-03-14 (13488 hits)

but the other :
Poetry 2009-06-13 (9680 hits)

Chansons Innocentes: I :
Poetry 2005-07-26 (11420 hits)

Degetele tale fac flori timpurii :
Poetry 2006-09-17 (12418 hits)

ecco a letter starting "dearest we" :
Poetry 2009-06-13 (9585 hits)

Epithalamion :
Poetry 2009-06-13 (10712 hits)

Fame Speaks :
Poetry 2005-06-04 (10651 hits)

gee i like to think of dead :
Poetry 2005-12-21 (10939 hits)

here is little Effie's head :
Poetry 2006-04-24 (9648 hits)

I Am A Beggar Always :
Poetry 2005-06-04 (11885 hits)

i carry yor heart with me :
Poetry 2005-12-21 (14232 hits)

i have found what you are like :
Poetry 2009-07-29 (10929 hits)

I shall imagine life :
Poetry 2009-06-12 (9951 hits)

I sing of Olaf glad and big : XXX
Poetry 2006-05-18 (10072 hits)

i thank you God :
Poetry 2004-08-17 (17214 hits)

if you like my poems let them :
Poetry 2009-06-12 (9511 hits)

Impression IV :
Poetry 2016-02-16 (7517 hits)

IX :
Poetry 2011-07-03 (10818 hits)

lily has a rose :
Poetry 2009-06-12 (9841 hits)

maggie and milly and molly and may :
Poetry 2006-03-18 (12927 hits)

My father moved through dooms of love :
Poetry 2006-02-11 (12115 hits)

My mind is :
Poetry 2009-07-29 (11157 hits)

Now I lay (with everywhere around) :
Poetry 2009-07-29 (10257 hits)

Picasso (XXIII) :
Poetry 2009-06-12 (9729 hits)

Since feeling is first :
Poetry 2009-07-29 (12243 hits)

Somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond :
Poetry 2006-03-14 (11463 hits)

Spring is like a perhaps hand : III
Poetry 2005-12-03 (10155 hits)

suppose (VIII) :
Poetry 2009-06-12 (9341 hits)

The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls :
Poetry 2005-09-05 (11020 hits)

the cat :
Poetry 2005-07-03 (12792 hits)

Biography Edward Estlin Cummings

Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962), popularly known as E. E. Cummings, with the abbreviated form of his name often written by others in all lowercase letters as e. e. cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. His body of work encompasses approximately 2,900 poems, an autobiographical novel, four plays and several essays, as well as numerous drawings and paintings. He is remembered as a preeminent voice of 20th century poetry, as well as one of the most popular.

Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October 14, 1894 to Edward and Rebecca Haswell Clarke Cummings. He was named after his father but his family called him by his middle name. Estlin's father was a professor of sociology and political science at Harvard University and later a Unitarian minister. Cummings described his father as a hero and a person who could accomplish anything that he wanted to. He was well skilled and was always working or repairing things. He and his son were close, and Edward was one of Cummings' most ardent supporters.

His mother, Rebecca, never partook in stereotypically "womanly" things, though she loved poetry and reading to her children. Raised in a well-educated family, Cummings was a very smart boy and his mother encouraged Estlin to write more and more poetry every day. His first poem came when he was only three: "Oh little birdie oh oh oh, With your toe toe toe." His sister, Elizabeth, was born when he was six years old.

In 1952, his alma mater, Harvard, awarded Cummings an honorary seat as a guest professor. The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures he gave in 1952 and 1955 were later collected as i: six nonlectures.

Cummings spent the last decade of his life traveling, fulfilling speaking engagements, and spending time at his summer home, Joy Farm, in Silver Lake, New Hampshire.

He died on September 3, 1962, at the age of 67 in North Conway, New Hampshire of a stroke. [13] His cremated remains were buried in Lot 748 Althaea Path, in Section 6, Forest Hills Cemetery and Crematory in Boston. In 1969, his third wife, Marion Morehouse Cummings, died and was buried in an adjoining plot: Lot 748, Althaea Path, Section 6.