E.E. Cummings
Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962), commonly known as e e cummings or E. E. Cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. During World War I, he worked as an ambulance driver and was imprisoned in an internment camp, which provided the basis for his novel The Enormous Room (1922). The following year he published his first collection of poetry, Tulips and Chimneys, which showed his early experiments with grammar and typography. He wrote four plays; HIM (1927) and Santa Claus: A Morality (1946) were the most successful ones. He wrote EIMI (1933), a travelog of the Soviet Union, and delivered the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures in poetry, published as i—six nonlectures (1953). Fairy Tales (1965), a collection of short stories, was published posthumously.
Cummings wrote approximately 2,900 poems. He is often regarded as one of the most important American poets of the 20th century. He is associated with modernist free-form poetry, and much of his work uses idiosyncratic syntax and lower-case spellings for poetic expression. M. L. Rosenthal wrote:
The chief effect of Cummings' jugglery with syntax, grammar, and diction was to blow open otherwise trite and bathetic motifs through a dynamic rediscovery of the energies sealed up in conventional usage ... He succeeded masterfully in splitting the atom of the cute commonplace.
For Norman Friedman, Cummings's inventions "are best understood as various ways of stripping the film of familiarity from language to strip the film of familiarity from the world. Transform the word, he seems to have felt, and you are on the way to transforming the world."
The poet Randall Jarrell said of Cummings, "No one else has ever made avant-garde, experimental poems so attractive to the general and the special reader." James Dickey wrote, "I think that Cummings is a daringly original poet, with more vitality and more sheer, uncompromising talent than any other living American writer." Dickey described himself as "ashamed and even a little guilty in picking out flaws" in Cummings's poetry, which he compared to noting "the aesthetic defects in a rose. It is better to say what must finally be said about Cummings: that he has helped to give life to the language."
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Nirvana Symphony: I. Campanology I - Earle Brown Contemporary Sound Series, Vol. 3 -
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Herma - Earle Brown Contemporary Sound Series, Vol. 3 -
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Frammento (Pièces de Chair II) - Earle Brown Contemporary Sound Series, Vol. 3 -
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Nirvana Symphony: II. Suramgamah - Earle Brown Contemporary Sound Series, Vol. 3 -
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Fantasy for Pianist - Earle Brown Contemporary Sound Series, Vol. 3 -
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Aria with Fontana Mix - Earle Brown Contemporary Sound Series, Vol. 3 -
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Nirvana Symphony: III. Campanology II - Earle Brown Contemporary Sound Series, Vol. 3 -
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Metathesis - Earle Brown Contemporary Sound Series, Vol. 3 -
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Nirvana Symphony: IV. Mahāprajñāpāramitā - Earle Brown Contemporary Sound Series, Vol. 3 -
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Corroboree - Earle Brown Contemporary Sound Series, Vol. 3 -
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Nirvana Symphony: V. Campanology III - Earle Brown Contemporary Sound Series, Vol. 3 -
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Nirvana Symphony: VI. Finale - Earle Brown Contemporary Sound Series, Vol. 3 -
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Not Yet - For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. IV -
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Bye Bye Birdy - For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. IV -
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Aure Deh Per Pietà - For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. IV -
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Voice & Birds - For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. IV -
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Monteverde September 08 - For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. IV -
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The Sparrows of Butyrka - For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. IV -
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Hope Is a Thing with Feathers - For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. IV -
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Lies About Sea Creatures - For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. IV -
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Birdsong Call - For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. IV -
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Alula - For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. IV -
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Coming - For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. IV -
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The Owl of Cranston - For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. IV -
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Rare Birds - For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. IV -
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Mourning Dove in Buoyancy - For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. IV -
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Many Worlds - For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. IV -
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Tanager Time - For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. IV -
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Bobcats, Beetles, Owls - For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. IV -
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The Ayaymama Bird - For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. IV -
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I Put on My Fur Coat - For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. IV -
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Montezuma Oropendola - For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. IV -
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Diary - For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. IV -
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Boy with a Headset - For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. IV -
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Planeaciones - For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. IV -
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In the World - For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. IV -
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Cuckoo - For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. IV -
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Wild Birds in an Imagined Canoga Park with Lakes and Trees in Place of Streets and Buildings - For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. IV -
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Wingspan - For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. IV -
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Tweetstorm - For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. IV -
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Sorrow Is Not My Name - For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. IV -
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Intone - For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. IV -
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Poems - For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. IV -
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Abide - For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. IV -
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County Route 41 - For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. IV -
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In Wiry Winter - For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. IV -
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Jacob Riis - For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. IV -
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Keep Me Warm (Crèche) - For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. IV -
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Birdsong - For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. IV -
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Avi Sinistra - For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. IV -
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Used Beak - For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. IV -
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Migration - For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. IV -
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Central Park - For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. IV -
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Sweet Spring Is Your - For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. IV -
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Kría - For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. IV -
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Birdy - For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. IV -
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Pettirosso - For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. IV -
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The Wild Geese - For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. IV -
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Birdsland - For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. IV -
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To This May - For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. IV -
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3 Songs for Mezzo-Soprano & Strings: No. 1, För vilsna fötter sjunger gräset - The Swedish Soprano -
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3 Songs for Mezzo-Soprano & Strings: No. 2, Vid Medelhavet - The Swedish Soprano -
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3 Songs for Mezzo-Soprano & Strings: No. 3, Madonnans vaggvisa - The Swedish Soprano -
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Havet sjunger - The Swedish Soprano -
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Växelvis kulning - The Swedish Soprano -
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Arnljot (Excerpts): Kommen, kvinnor! - The Swedish Soprano -
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Arnljot (Excerpts): Huld och hövisk hälsning... Hån, nidord ännu... - The Swedish Soprano -
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Arnljot (Excerpts): O vore var maska, jag knyter - The Swedish Soprano -
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Arnljot (Excerpts): Är det möjligt! - The Swedish Soprano -
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En sommardag - The Swedish Soprano -
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Marie Antoinette: Jag ber till Gud av hjärtat om förlåtelse - The Swedish Soprano -
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Hennes ord (3 Visor till dikt av Bo Bergman): No. 1, Kärleken är en rosenlund, dit vill jag gå åstad - The Swedish Soprano -
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Hennes ord (3 Visor till dikt av Bo Bergman): No. 2, Jag hörde din röst och jag sprang min kos - The Swedish Soprano -
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Hennes ord (3 Visor till dikt av Bo Bergman): No. 3, Jag fryser om dina händer - The Swedish Soprano -
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Soliloquium - The Swedish Soprano -
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Electra (Excerpt): Se ondskan segrar än uti sitt djärva lopp! - The Swedish Soprano -
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Electra (Excerpt): Princessa! - The Swedish Soprano -
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Electra (Excerpt): I ett förhatligt liv, I sorger utan tal - The Swedish Soprano -
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Bara hos den - The Swedish Soprano -
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Nausikaa ensam - The Swedish Soprano -
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Getlock / Vid morgonlösningen / Vid middagsvila / Vid bete på myr / Vid hemfärden - The Swedish Soprano -
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The High Mass: I. Kyrie. Christe eleison - The Swedish Soprano -
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The High Mass: II. Gloria. Qui sedes ad dextram Patris - The Swedish Soprano -
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The High Mass: III. Credo. Et in Spiritum Sanctum - The Swedish Soprano -
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Det enda - The Swedish Soprano -
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Aniara (Excerpts): Ley tody vain dodo - The Swedish Soprano -
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Aniara (Excerpts): Lib i della - The Swedish Soprano -
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Aniara (Excerpts): Vocalization - The Swedish Soprano -
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Aniara (Excerpts): Jag anar dödens skugga - The Swedish Soprano -
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Nära - The Swedish Soprano -
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now all the fingers of this tree, Op. 9 - The Swedish Soprano -
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Köukning med getlock - The Swedish Soprano -
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10 Japanska romanser "Ur" (Excerpts): Till en vän - The Swedish Soprano -
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10 Japanska romanser "Ur" (Excerpts): Tidig blom - The Swedish Soprano -
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Enbart för Kerstin - The Swedish Soprano -
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Svanvits sång - The Swedish Soprano -
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Kolock - The Swedish Soprano -
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3 Canti da cabaret, Op. 29: No. 1, E lasciatemi divertire - The Swedish Soprano -
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3 Canti da cabaret, Op. 29: No. 2, La fontana malata - The Swedish Soprano -
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3 Canti da cabaret, Op. 29: No. 3, Rio Bo - The Swedish Soprano -
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Önskan - The Swedish Soprano -
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Tokfursten: Eldfågeln - The Swedish Soprano -
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Kulning - The Swedish Soprano -
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Höstkvällen - The Swedish Soprano -
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Neither Nor - The Swedish Soprano -
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Singoalla, Op. 22 (Excerpts): Olá!, skriar falken - The Swedish Soprano -
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Singoalla, Op. 22 (Excerpts): Ja, min fader, jag skall gå - The Swedish Soprano -
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Singoalla, Op. 22 (Excerpts): Assarias folk, förtvivlan ej! - The Swedish Soprano -
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Singoalla, Op. 22 (Excerpts): Solen sjunker. Döden öppnar sitt rike - The Swedish Soprano -
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En kärlekssaga, Op. 14: III. Ibland myrten och jasminer - The Swedish Soprano -
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