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[[File:E. E. Cummings NYWTS.jpg|thumb|300px|E. E. Cummings in 1953]] |
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E. E. Cummings was an American poet ([[Renaissance Man|as well as a playwright, painter, novelist, and lecturer]]) best known for his use of unusual punctuation, capitalization and grammar in his poems (to the extent that many people could tell you what a Cummings poem looks like, but far fewer could talk confidently about what any of his poems is ''about''). |
'''E. E. Cummings''' was an American poet ([[Renaissance Man|as well as a playwright, painter, novelist, and lecturer]]) best known for his use of unusual punctuation, capitalization and grammar in his poems (to the extent that many people could tell you what a Cummings poem looks like, but far fewer could talk confidently about what any of his poems is ''about''). |
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His name is sometimes rendered by others (including some of his publishers) as "e.e. cummings", in imitation of his style, but he himself preferred to punctuate his name the usual way. |
His name is sometimes rendered by others (including some of his publishers) as "e.e. cummings", in imitation of his style, but he himself preferred to punctuate his name the usual way. |
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=== His works provide examples of: === |
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* [[Affair Hair]] |
* [[Affair Hair]] |
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* [[All Lowercase Letters]] |
* [[All Lowercase Letters]] |
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* [[No Title]] |
* [[No Title]] |
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* [[Signature Style]] |
* [[Signature Style]] |
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* [[Spell My Name |
* [[Spell My Name with a Blank]] |
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* [[Unconventional Formatting]] |
* [[Unconventional Formatting]] |
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* [[Wanton Cruelty to |
* [[Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma]] |
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Latest revision as of 18:04, 8 March 2019
E. E. Cummings was an American poet (as well as a playwright, painter, novelist, and lecturer) best known for his use of unusual punctuation, capitalization and grammar in his poems (to the extent that many people could tell you what a Cummings poem looks like, but far fewer could talk confidently about what any of his poems is about).
His name is sometimes rendered by others (including some of his publishers) as "e.e. cummings", in imitation of his style, but he himself preferred to punctuate his name the usual way.
Pages on this wiki with page quotes by E. E. Cummings include:
E. E. Cummings provides examples of the following tropes:
- Affair Hair
- All Lowercase Letters
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
- Measuring the Marigolds
- No Punctuation Period
- No Title
- Signature Style
- Spell My Name with a Blank
- Unconventional Formatting
- Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma