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e. e. cummings

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E. E. Cummings (1894–1962) was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to prominent Unitarian parents whose circle of friends included Josiah Royce and William James. After earning his master’s degree from Harvard in 1916, Cummings enlisted in the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps and was arrested by the French military on suspicion of espionage because of antiwar sentiments expressed in his letters home. Two months later, after his father wrote a letter to Woodrow Wilson, Cummings was set free and returned to the United States, where he was drafted into the army and served on a base in Massachusetts until the end of the war. The Enormous Room, based on his experience as a prisoner, appeared in 1922, a year before his first book of poetry, Tulips and Chimneys.

Nicholas Delbanco is the author of more than thirty books of fiction and nonfiction, including, most recently, Why Writing Matters, the essay collection Curiouser and Curiouser, and the novel It Is Enough. He is the Robert Frost Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan. He lives in New York City and Cape Cod.

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Puella Mea and the Collected Poetry of e.e. cummings - 1910-1926 book cover

Puella Mea and the Collected Poetry of e.e. cummings - 1910-1926

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is 5 - Poetry by e.e. cummings

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XLI Poems - Poetry by e.e. cummings

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Tulips and Chimneys - Poetry by e.e. cummings

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& (And) - Poetry by e.e. cummings

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The Enormous Room

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The Enormous Room book cover

The Enormous Room

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The Enormous Room

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The Enormous Room (Warbler Classics)

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The Enormous Room book cover

The Enormous Room

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The Enormous Room

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A Miscellany

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ViVa

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Etcetera

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XAIPE

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The Enormous Room

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100 Selected Poems

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AnOther E.E. Cummings

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Tulips and Chimneys

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Selected Poems

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