Author:Edward Estlin Cummings

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Edward Estlin Cummings (1894–1962)

See biography, media, quotes, indexes. Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962), popularly known as E. E. Cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. His body of work encompasses more than 900 poems, an autobiographical novel, several plays and essays, as well as numerous drawings and paintings. He is remembered as a preeminent voice of 20th century poetry, as well as one of the most popular. — Excerpted from E. E. Cummings on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Contents 1 Works 2 Novels 3 Poetry 4 Drama

[edit] Works

• The New Art, 1915 in the Harvard Advocate

[edit] Novels

• The Enormous Room[1]
• The Life and Times of Edward Seul, 1924 unfinished manuscript

[edit] Poetry

• Harvard Monthly
  • "Mist", published in the Harvard Monthly
  • "Water-Liles", published in the Harvard Monthly
  • "Music", published in the Harvard Monthly
  • "Vision", published in the Harvard Monthly

• Harvard Advocate (1915)
  • "Ballade"
  • "Sunset"
  • "Of Nicolette"
  • "Summer Silence"

• Eight Harvard Poets (1917)
  • "Thou in whose sword-great story shine the deeds"
  • "A Chorus Girl"
  • "This is the garden"
  • "It may not always be so"
  • "Crepuscule"
  • "Finis"
  • "Epitaph" [2]
  • "The Lover Speaks" [3]

• "Seven Poems" (The Dial, January 1920)
  • "little tree"
  • "the bigness of cannon"
  • "Buffalo Bill's"
  • "when god lets my body be"
  • "why did you go"
  • "when life is quite through with"
  • "O Distinct"

• "Five Poems" (The Dial, May 1920)
  • "into the strenuous briefness"
  • "O sweet spontaneous"
  • "but the other"
  • "in Just-"
  • "spring omnipotent goddess Thou"

• "Puella Mea" (January 1921)

[edit] Drama

• Santa Claus: A Morality, 1946

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1923. The author died in 1962, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 30 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.