This program was originally broadcast on February 11, 2014. Susan Cheever on the poet e.e. cummings, all lower-case, and radical. Poet e.e. cummings, pictured on the cover of Susan Cheever's new ...
In addition to writing beautiful, confusingly punctuated poems, e.e. cummings was an enthusiastic backer of his era's most regrettable social trends, including Joe McCarthy's Red Scare. He once wrote ...
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Unlike many well-known poets, E. E. Cummings and James Laughlin didn’t write with metaphysical or philosophical ambition. But that doesn’t mean their poetry doesn’t matter. Cummings wrote verse ...
Just over 50 years after E.E. Cummings’ Norton lectures at Harvard Uni-versity, the poet’s star has somewhat dimmed in academic circles. One is more likely to find his contemporaries Wallace Stevens ...
Edward Estlin Cummings’ father, a Congregational minister, shocked his staid parishioners in Boston’s Old South Church one Sunday by crying from the pulpit: “The Kingdom of Heaven is no spiritual roof ...
Early in 1931, in his 37th year, Edward Estlin Cummings published an extraordinary book. No writer of note had ever done anything like it before (and few have since). Titled CIOPW, it collected ...
When Susan Cheever was a high school sophomore, E.E. Cummings came to her school for a reading. Her father, novelist John Cheever, was friendly with Cummings and a great admirer of the poet, so the ...
Susan Cheever on the poet e.e. cummings, all lower-case, and radical. Poet e.e. cummings, pictured on the cover of Susan Cheever's new biography, "E.E. Cummings: A Life." (Random House) In the mid-20 ...
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