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Author Cheever, Susan.

Title E.E. Cummings : a life / Susan Cheever.

Publication Info. New York : Pantheon Books, [2014]

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  92 CUMMINGS    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY CUMMINGS    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  BIOG. CUMMINGS, E.    Storage
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  B CUMMINGS E.E.    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  B CUMMINGS E.E.    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Biography  B CUMMINGS    Check Shelf
 Marlborough, Richmond Memorial Library - Adult Department  B CUMMINGS    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  811.52 C41    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  B CUMMINGS, E.E.    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Biographies  B CUMMINS E.E. C    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description xvii, 213 pages, 28 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-200) and index.
Summary 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. Cummings was and remains controversial--called "a master" or "hideous." In Susan Cheever's rich biography we see his idyllic childhood years in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his sternly religious father and his loving, attentive mother. We see Cummings--slight, agile, playful, a product of a nineteenth-century New England childhood; his love of nature; his sense of fun, laughter, mimicry; his desire from the get-go to stand conventional wisdom on its head. At Harvard, he earned two degrees, discovered alcohol, fast cars, and burlesque, and raged against the school's exclusionary upper-class rule. He grew into a dark young man and set out on a lifelong course of rebellion against conventional authority. Headstrong and cavalier, he volunteered as an ambulance driver in World War I, working alongside Hemingway and Joyce. He permanently fled to Greenwich Village to be among other modernist poets of the day, and we see the development of both the poet and his work against the backdrop of modernism. Cheever's book gives us the evolution of an artist whose writing was at the forefront of what was new and daring and bold in an America in transition.--From publisher description.
Contents Preface: A visit to the masters school -- Odysseus returns to Cambridge -- 104 Irving Street -- Harvard -- The Western Front -- The enormous room -- Greenwich Village : Elaine and Nancy -- Anne Barton and Josef Stalin -- Eimi and Marion Morehouse -- No thanks -- Ezra Pound and Santa Claus -- Rebecca and Nancy -- "I think I am falling in love with you" -- Readings : a new career -- Victory and defeat -- Coda: Cummings's reputation in the twenty-first century -- Afterword: Patchin place.
Subject Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962.
Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
ISBN 9780307379979 hardback
0307379973 hardback
9780307908674 (electronic bk.)
0307908674 (electronic bk.)
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