biography
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Cummings, E(dward) E(stlin)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1894–1962)
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| biography:
| Writer and painter, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He studied at Harvard, served in World War 1 in France, then studied art at Paris. His writings attracted more interest than his paintings (though a collection of his work was published in 1931). His several successful collections of poetry, starting with Tulips and Chimneys (1923), are striking for their unorthodox typography and linguistic style. Complete Poems appeared in 1968. He also wrote a travel diary, a morality play, Santa Claus (1946), and a collection of six ‘non-lectures’ delivered at Harvard entitled i (1953). His best-known prose work, The Enormous Room (1922), describes his wartime internment in France. |
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