e. e. cummings

e. e. cummings is without question one of the major poets of this century, and this volume, first published in 1959, is indispensable for every lover of modern lyrical verse. It contains one hundred of cummings's wittiest and most profound poems, harvested from thirty-five of the most radically creative years in contemporary American poetry. These poems exhibit all the extraordinary lyricism, playfulness, technical ingenuity, and compassion for which...

e.e. cummings' fourth poetry collection demonstrates his skilled modernist voice and unmatched ability to test the limitations of the English language. First published in 1926, is 5 contains 88 poems in cummings' distinctively complex style. Featuring satirical work, many experimental pieces, and several anti-war poems, this volume is a collection of modernist poetry that explores classic poetic themes. This volume's title is the first hint of e....

Presents with illustrations the celebrated author's poem of ghosts and goblins, witches, and the devil.

"A Miscellany--as published in 1958...--contained "a cluster of epigrams," forty-nine essays, a poem and three speeches from an unfinished play. All of these pieces had been written for or first published in magazines, anthologies, or art gallery catalogues. A considerable number of them were published under pseudonyms; a few appeared anonymously. The original Miscellany was intended to be a gathering of all the shorter pieces by Cummings that had...