Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin) 1894-1962

Overview

Works:	2,518 works in 5,555 publications in 7 languages and 124,997 library holdings
Genres:	Poetry Criticism, interpretation, etc Juvenile works Personal narratives‡vAmerican Biography Fiction Records and correspondence Personal narratives Autobiographies Christmas poetry
Roles:	Author, Translator, Lyricist, Speaker, Performer, Illustrator, Writer of accompanying material, Other, Creator, Librettist, Honoree, Narrator, Composer, Signer, Contributor, Artist, Author of screenplay, Scenarist
Classifications:	PS3505.U334, 811.52

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Most widely held works about E. E Cummings

E.E. Cummings by Catherine Reef( Book )
The enormous room by E. E Cummings( Book )
E.E. Cummings by Barry Alan Marks( Book )
Beleaguered poets and leftist critics : Stevens, Cummings, Frost, and Williams in the 1930s by Milton A Cohen( )
Dreams in the mirror : a biography of E.E. Cummings by Richard S Kennedy( Book )

E.E. Cummings : a collection of critical essays by E. E Cummings( Book )
Part of nature, part of us : modern American poets by Helen Vendler( Book )
The continuity of American poetry by Roy Harvey Pearce( Book )
E.E. Cummings : an introduction to the poetry by Rushworth M Kidder( Book )
E.E. Cummings revisited by Richard S Kennedy( Book )
E.E. Cummings by Eve Triem( Book )
E.E. Cummings, the art of his poetry by Norman Friedman( Book )
Modern American poetry; essays in criticism by Jerome Mazzaro( Book )
E.E. Cummings : a biography by Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno( Book )
World War I and the American novel by Stanley Cooperman( Book )
Six American poets from Emily Dickinson to the present : an introduction by Allen Tate( Book )
E.E. Cummings: the growth of a writer by Norman Friedman( Book )
Selected letters of E.E. Cummings by E. E Cummings( Book )
E.E. Cummings : a life by Susan Cheever( Book )
E.E. Cummings : the magic-maker by Charles Norman( Book )

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Most widely held works by E. E Cummings

Complete poems, 1904-1962 by E. E Cummings( Book )

62 editions published between 1973 and 2016 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,495 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"This revised, corrected, and expanded edition of E.E. Cummings's Complete Poems brings together, for the very first time, all of the poems published or designated for publication by the poet in his lifetime. In addition, 164 unpublished poems, issued in 1983 under the title Etcetera, have also been included."--Editor's note

American poetry : the twentieth century( Book )

1 edition published in 2000 in English and held by 2,346 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Contains over 1500 poems by more than 200 well-known American poets, including Langston Hughes, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, and Wallace Stevens

Little tree by E. E Cummings( Book )

32 editions published between 1960 and 2006 in English and held by 2,251 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The poet/individualist's ode to a small tree decorated for Christmas and proud to receive admiring attention

Puella mea by E. E Cummings( )

15 editions published between 1923 and 1997 in 3 languages and held by 1,945 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The enormous room by E. E Cummings( Book )

178 editions published between 1922 and 2015 in 3 languages and held by 1,824 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"In 1917 young Edward Estlin Cummings went to France as a volunteer with a Red Cross ambulance unit on the western front. But his free-spirited, insubordinate ways soon got him tagged as a possible enemy of La Patrie, and he was summarily tossed into a French concentration camp at La Ferte-Mace in Normandy." "Under the vilest conditions, Cummings found fulfillment of his ever elusive quest for freedom. The Enormous Room, his account of his four-month confinement, reads like a latter-day Pilgrim's Progress, a journey into dispossession, to a place among the most debased and deprived of human creatures. Cummings's hopeful tone reflects the essential paradox of his existence: to lose everything is to become free, and so to be saved."--Jacket

Poems, 1923-1954 by E. E Cummings( Book )

28 editions published between 1944 and 1968 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,794 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Five poems by E. E Cummings( )

8 editions published in 1996 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,755 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Seven poems by E. E Cummings( )

8 editions published between 1948 and 1996 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,742 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Complete poems, 1913-1962 by E. E Cummings( Book )

26 editions published between 1968 and 1996 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,703 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The creative development of the American poet is revealed in this comprehensive compilation of his works

95 Poems by E. E Cummings( Book )

30 editions published between 1950 and 2002 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,624 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A collection of poems written since 1954

73 poems by E. E Cummings( Book )

61 editions published between 1944 and 2003 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,578 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Four months after Cummings's death in September 1962, his widow, the photographer Marion Morehouse, collected the typescripts of 29 new poems. These poems, as well as uncollected poems published only in periodicals up to that time, make up 73 Poems. This is the final volume in Liveright's reissue of Cummings's individual volumes of poetry, with texts and settings based on E.E. Cummings: The Complete Poems 1904-1962

Collected poems by E. E Cummings( Book )

51 editions published between 1926 and 1977 in 3 languages and held by 1,496 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Donated by Michael Dillon, June 2009

100 selected poems by E. E Cummings( Book )

37 editions published between 1926 and 2014 in English and held by 1,446 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Lyrical verses span the career of a twentieth-century American poet, and illuminate his concern for the future of humanity

Hist whist by E. E Cummings( Book )

19 editions published between 1973 and 1994 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,354 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Presents with illustrations the celebrated author's poem of scary, ghostly things

No thanks by E. E Cummings( Book )

29 editions published between 1935 and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 1,187 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

E.E. Cummings, along with Pound, Eliot, and Williams, helped bring about the twentieth-century revolution in literary expression. He is recognized as the author of some of the most beautiful lyric poems written in the English language and also as one of the most inventive American poets of his time. Fresh and candid, by turns earthy, tender, defiant, and romantic, Cummings's poems celebrate the uniqueness of each individual, the need to protest the dehumanizing force of organizations, and the exuberant power of love. No Thanks was first published in 1935; although Cummings was by then in mid-career, he had still not achieved recognition, and the title refers ironically to publishers' rejections. No Thanks contains some of Cummings's most daring literary experiments, and it represents most fully his view of life-romantic individualism. The poems celebrate an openly felt response to the beauties of the natural world, and they give first place to love, especially sexual love, in all its manifestations. The volume includes such favorites as "sonnet entitled how to run the world)," "may I feel said he," "Jehovah buried. Satan dead," "be of love (a little)," and the now-famous grasshopper poem. (Barnes & Noble)

Fairy tales by E. E Cummings( Book )

41 editions published between 1950 and 2016 in 4 languages and held by 1,094 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Four tales include "The Old Man Who Said 'Why'," "The Elephant and The Butterfly," "The House That Ate Mosquito Pie," and "The Little Girl Named I."

Him by E. E Cummings( Book )

31 editions published between 1927 and 1995 in 3 languages and held by 880 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

E.E. Cummings: a miscellany revised by E. E Cummings( Book )

2 editions published in 1965 in English and held by 826 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

W by E. E Cummings( Book )

21 editions published between 1931 and 1979 in English and Undetermined and held by 822 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Is 5 by E. E Cummings( Book )

38 editions published between 1926 and 1996 in English and Undetermined and held by 769 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Fresh and candid, by turns earthy, tender, defiant, and romantic, Cummings's poems celebrate the uniqueness of each individual, the need to protest the dehumanizing force of organizations, and the exuberant power of love

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