e.e.cummings
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Personal life
Works and Paintings
Three periods of his life
Personal Life
• Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October
14, 1894
• elder of two children
• His father，a professor of sociology and
political science at Harvard University and later
a Unitarian minister（神论部长）.
Education
• A Bachelor of Arts degree in Harvard
University.
• Master’s degree in English and Classical
Studies at Harvard.
• At the end of the WWI, going to Paris to study
art, influenced by Gertrude Stein’s syntactical
and Amy Lowell’s imagistic experiments
Career life
• Working as a mail-order and then
volunteering for the American Red Cross as an
ambulance driver in France
• Later imprisoned
• After armistice, moving back and met his first
wife.
Marriage
Cummings was married briefly twice.
First marriage
Elaine Orr
a daughter, Nancy.
(Nancy was Cummings'
only child.)
second wife Anne Minnerly
Barton separated 3 years
later.
Marion Morehouse( a
fashion model and
photographer).
Final years and death
Cummings spent the last
decades of his life traveling.
He died of a cerebral
hemorrhage
at the age of 67 .
2,900 poems
four plays
A Poet playwright
essayist
a cubist painter
numerous
paintings.
several essays
Features
traditional techniques
New, highly
idiosyncratic
(有特质的)
means of
poetic
expression.
Love poems Satirical squibs
Descriptive natural poems
His Favor
• He was criticized for settling into
his signature style and not pressing
his work towards further
evolution.
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Poetry…
• Tulips and Chimneys (1923)
& (1925)
No Thanks (1935) 1 x 1 (1944)
IS5(1926)
ViVa (1931)
Xaipe(1950) Ninety-five
Poems (1958
collection
• In 1931,a collection of drawings and paintings
CIOPW
• The Enormous Room (1922),
• 《巨大的房间》
Eimi (1933)
(travel journal)
Four plays
HIM (1927)
The Future of Art (1930),
Tom: A Ballet (1935)
Santa Claus: A Morality (1946).
Comments about e.e.cummings
At the time of his death in 1962, he was the
second most widely read poet in the United
States, after Robert Frost.
He is remembered as a preeminent voice of 20th
century poetry, as well as one of the most
popular.
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