E. E. Cummings

Misty McGinnis Bailey (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

Ed. by Emory Elliott, University of California, Riverside
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.3: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

Born 14 Oct 1894
Died 2 Sep 1962
Activity 1917-1962

Places

Born in United States
Active in United States; France

Activities

Primary

Poet

Other

Children's/Young Adult writer
Lecturer
Letter-writer/ Diarist
Literary Critic/ Historian
Playwright / Dramatist

Resources

Edward Estlin Cummings was born October 14, 1894, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Edward and Rebecca Haswell Clarke Cummings. His father had studied at Harvard and at Oxford before teaching English, sociology, and political science at Harvard University. Edward was ordained minister of the South Congregational Society, Unitarian, of Boston in 1900, and many of his sermons were published during his lifetime. Cummings' mother delighted in caring for her children. She had a deep aesthetic appreciation of the world and enjoyed helping her husband with all kinds of activities, even shingling the roof. Rebecca Cummings learned to drive an automobile early and taught her children their letters and how to keep diaries. The Cummings family was …

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Citation: McGinnis Bailey, Misty. "E. E. Cummings". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 21 March 2002 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1093, accessed 24 November 2024.]

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