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E E Cummings: A Life

✍ Scribed by Cheever, Susan

Book ID: 107805567
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year: 2014
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 7 MB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780307379979

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✦ Synopsis

From the author of American Bloomsbury ("Beguiling" --Publishers Weekly), Louisa May Alcott ("Fascinating . . . Another splendid piece of work with hidden depths by Susan Cheever"--Michael Korda), and Home Before Dark ("Moving and brilliantly restrained"--The New York Times Book Review), 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, our generation's beloved heretic. At the time of his death in 1962, at age sixty-eight, he was, after Robert Frost, the most widely read poet in the United States.

E. E. Cummings was and remains controversial. He has been called "a master" (Malcolm Cowley); "hideous" (Edmund Wilson). James Dickey called him a "daringly original poet with more vitality and more sheer uncompromising talent than any other living American writer."

In Susan Cheever's rich, illuminating biography we see Cummings's...

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