E.E.+Cummings

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Edward Estlin Cummings or E.E. Cummings is a man who loved pushing the limits of arts. He was a painter and a poet who was involved in the post modernist movement. He was very close with T.S. Eliot and corresponded frequently with Ezra Pound. Cummings was very supportive of modernist art in all facets, including a heightened interest in cubism.

In a biography written by Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno, the author describes Cummings: "E.E. Cummings was an American original. Throughout his forty-five years of professional writing life, he consistently celebrated the ordinary, reviled pretentiousness, scourged conformity, ardently championed the individual (and nature) against the machine, experimented boldly with words and syntax and punctuation, and wrote some of the most erotic and tender love poetry in the English language".

E.E. Cummings is often referred to as a man that was a "celebrity among celebrities". He was so wildly popular that his death made the front page of the New York Times on September 4th, 1962, "E.E. Cummings Dies of Stroke; Poet Stood for Stylistic Liberty". It is not very often that a poet made the front page during the Vietnam War, but the article shows just how important Cummings was to culture.