E. E. Cummings
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Cummings' collage-poems exhibit an extremely fragmented visual-verbal surface that must be "played" and in some sense reconstructed by the reader. But this fragmenting also enables and reveals symmetrical mathematical and rhetorical... more
This essay takes its title from a 1959 essay by Robert Langbaum called "The New Nature Poetry." Langbaum's essay was a pioneering foray into the vast and complex topic of modernist nature poetry: as such, it provides us with a convenient... more
As restated recently in The New Yorker, E. E. Cummings’ style is identifiable from his particular use of punctuation and typography (Muldoon, 2014). Though this is more notably reflected in his experimental poetry, this part of Cummings’... more
The latest compilation of Cummings material is entitled Erotic Poems, published in February 2010 by W. W. Norton. Its editor is George James Firmage, who was also responsible for such important books as E. E. Cummings: A Bibliography... more
Comparison of three choral settings of E. E. Cummings' "i thank You God for most this amazing" using a 1953 recording of the poet reading the poem as a control group for analysis of rhythmic features and affects within each work. Settings... more
Marked linguistic structures in E. E. Cummings’ poetry have long been an issue within literary criticism and stylistics. In this sense, critical approaches to Cummings’ style have dealt mainly with grammar, lexis and morphology, while... more
For some time scholars have examined unconventional linguistic patterns in E. E. Cummings’ poetic style. Of all the aspects under consideration, it is grammar, lexis and morphology that have been most widely researched, while only a small... more
Spring: The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society 20 (2013): 116-143.
Un poeta es alguien que siente, y quien expresa sus sentimientos mediante palabras Esto debe sonar fácil. No lo es. Muchas personas piensan o creen o saben que sienten—pero eso es pensar o creer o saber: no sentir. Y poesía es sentimiento... more
The purpose of this article is to offer a description and evaluation of the Spanish translations of Cummings' poetry, paying special attention to the differences between them and the original poems. The first part consists of a brief... more
“Paris;this April sunset completely utters” is probably the most famous E. E. Cummings’ poem on the French city. The aim of this article is to offer the readers and scholars a linguistic description of this sonnet using stylistics as the... more
Artykuł „Niuanse nieumarłości a transhumanistyczne odrzucenie śmiertelności” stanowi próbę zastanowienia się nad możliwością powiązań między nastawieniem myśli transhumanistycznej do śmierci i śmiertelności a nieumarłością najpierw... more
When Joshua came to Jericho and encountered the captain of the LORD's host, his stance appears much like the theodicist, who, facing the awful facts of suffering, evil, or death, seeks assurance from God, asking, "are you for us or our... more
In a 1955 letter to Norman Friedman, Cummings declared that a poem “IS immeasurably alive” ("Letter" 147). Nevertheless, he constructed his poetry in “measurable” (and presumably un-alive?) symmetrical and mathematical units and patterns.... more
Unconventional linguistic features in E. E. Cummings’ poetic style have long been a focus of study. Linguists have researched this aspect of this poet’s technique mainly in connection to grammar, lexis and morphology; however, few... more
The article considers the imaginative analysis of novelized travelogue “EIMI” by E. E. Cummings in the context of the social- political and cultural relations between Soviet Russia and the USA in the first half of the ХХ century.... more
George Herriman’s comic strip Krazy Kat has been discussed in mythic terms for more than half a century. This article argues that much of this ‘mythology’ has not been founded on the material itself, but rather on memories and... more
This is the first complete Korean translation of E.E. Cummings's "i: six nonlectures," a collection of his talks on life and poetry in the early 1950s, given at Harvard University as part of the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures. The Korean... more
In Eimi, his poetic, typographically experimental prose memoir of a 1931 trip to the Soviet Union, E. E. Cummings measured his subjective “I-me” against the collectivist values and bureaucratized realities of the only existing socialist... more
Since the Romantic era, the lyrical poem has epitomized the idea of poetic loneliness. While the alleged loneliness epidemic, considered a pervasive mental health problem in Western societies, brings to the fore solitude’s dangerous... more