E. E. Cummings A Life

Susan Cheever

eBook - 2014

From the author of American Bloomsbury, Louisa May Alcott, and Home Before Dark, a major reassessment of the life and work of the novelist, painter, and playwright considered to be one of America’s preeminent twentieth-century poets. At the time of his death in 1962, at age sixty-eight, he was, after Robert Frost, the most widely read poet in the United States. E. E. Cummings was and remains controversial. He has been called “a master” (Malcolm Cowley); “hideous” (Edmund Wilson). James Dickey called him a “daringly original poet with more vitality and more sheer uncompromising talent than any other living American writer.” In Susan Cheever’s rich, illuminating biography we see Cummings’s idyllic childhood years in Cambridg...e, Massachusetts; his Calvinist father—distinguished Harvard professor and sternly religious minister of the Cambridge Congregational Church; his...

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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English
Main Author
Susan Cheever
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File Size8 GB
ISBN9780307908674
Release Date2/11/2014
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ASINB00EMX9Q4C
Release Date2/11/2014
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9780307908674
Release Date2/11/2014