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E. E. Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts to Edward and Rebecca
Haswell Clarke Cummings. Intensely creative, Cummings was also a fine artist,
playwright and novelist; his life and art were tightly interwoven. Known for
typographic innovation, Cummings controlled both the look and the content of
his poems.
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Contents
Information about The E. E. Cummings Society and its journal, Spring.
A small, informal bibliography
Chronology
Links
Notes on the capitalization of "E. E. Cummings"
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The E. E. Cummings Society
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Send subscriptions and submissions (manuscripts must be accompanied by a
self-addressed stamped envelope) to:
E-mail concerning Spring and The E. E. Cummings Society may be directed to Mike Webster at: websterm@gvsu.edu. Spring cover © 1995 The E. E. Cummings Society. Reproduced with permission. |
A small, informal bibliography . . .
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Chronology | ||
1894 |
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Edward Estlin Cummings born, October 14, Cambridge, Massachusetts to Edward and Rebecca Haswell Clarke Cummings. |
1911 |
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Enters Harvard. |
1912 |
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First published poems in Harvard Monthly. |
1915 |
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Graduates Harvard Magna cum Laude, delivers commencement, "The New Art." |
1916 |
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Receives M.A. for English and Classical Studies from Harvard. |
1917 |
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Ambulance driver with Norton Harjes Ambulance Corps (American Red Cross), France. |
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Published in Eight Harvard Poets. | |
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Imprisoned by French authorities on suspicion of disloyalty. | |
1918 |
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Released from prison New Year's Day, returns to New York City. |
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Drafted into United States Army until Armistice. | |
1919 |
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December 20: a daughter, Nancy, born to Elaine Orr [Thayer] and Cummings. |
1920 |
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Appears in the Dial. |
1921 |
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Returns to Paris and studies art. Remains until 1923 but often returns. |
1922 |
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The Enormous Room published. |
1923 |
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Returns to New York City. Resides at 4 Patchin Place, Greenwich Village. |
1923 |
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Tulips and Chimneys published. |
1924 |
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March 19: Marries Elaine Orr. They are divorced December 4. |
1925 |
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Receives the Dial Award. |
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& and XLI Poems published. | |
1925 |
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Essayist for Vanity Fair and other journals until 1927. |
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Edward Cummings, father, dies. | |
1927 |
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Marries Anne Barton |
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Him published. | |
1930 |
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No Title and Anthropos: The Future of Art published. |
1931 |
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Visits Russia. |
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First major show of paintings at Painters and Sculptors Gallery, New York City. | |
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CIOPW and VV (ViVa) published. | |
1932 |
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Marries Marion Morehouse. *See note about this date. |
1933 |
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Guggenheim Fellowship. |
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Eimi and The Red Front published. | |
1934 |
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August 31: Divorce to Anne Barton granted. *See note about this date. |
1935 |
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Tom and no thanks published. |
1938 |
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Collected Poems published. |
1940 |
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50 Poems published. |
1944 |
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1 x 1 published. |
1945 |
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Writes introduction to collection of Krazy Kat comic strips. |
1946 |
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Santa Claus (A Morality) published. |
1947 |
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Rebecca Haswell Clarke Cummings, mother, dies. |
1950 |
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Fellowship of American Academy of Poets. |
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Xaipe published. | |
1951 |
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Guggenheim Fellowship. |
1952 |
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Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard. |
1953 |
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i:six Nonlectures published. |
1954 |
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Poems 1923-1954 published. |
1955 |
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Special citation for Poems 1923-1954 by National Book Awards. |
1957 |
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Bollingen Prize in Poetry and Boston Arts Festival Award. |
1958 |
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95 poems and E. E. Cummings: A Miscellany published. |
1962 |
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Dies September 3, North Conway, New Hampshire of a brain hemorrhage. |
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Adventures in Value with (Marion Morehouse) published. | |
1963 |
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73 poems published. |
1965 |
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Fairy Tales published. |
1969 |
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Selected Letters of E. E. Cummings published. |
1972 |
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Complete Poems: 1913-1962 published. |
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Friedman, in E.E. Cummings A Collection of Critical Essays, gives 1932 as the year of Cummings' marriage to Marion Morehouse. However, in Dreams in the Mirror, Kennedy gives 1934 as the year of Cummings' divorce to Anne Barton, after which Marion Morehouse was considered Cummings' wife. Kennedy also states there is uncertainty as to whether Cummings and Morehouse actually held a wedding ceremony. |
Links
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Notes on the capitalization of "E. E. Cummings"
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![]() Thanks to Sangman Lee at Stanford University for providing a quote from the preface of E. E. Cummings Revisited, by Richard S. Kennedy, 1994. Here Kennedy states Cummings' name should name be capitalized, and that the E. E. Cummings Society has been working to correct the misinformation that Cummings had an all lower case version of his name legalized. Norman Friedman's essays about this subject have been recently posted on the Grand Valley State University site. Please read these authoritative pieces. However, note that the edition of American Writers I've seen states Cummings legalized "e. e. cummings" as the signature to his poems. |
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