Author:Edward Estlin Cummings

Edward Estlin Cummings
(1894–1962)

Edward Estlin Cummings

Works

Essays

• "The New Art", 1915 in the Harvard Advocate

Novels

• The Enormous Room (1922)
• The Life and Times of Edward Seul, 1924 unfinished manuscript

Poetry

Collections

• Tulips and Chimneys (1923)
• & (1925)
• Xli Poems (1925)
• is 5 (1926)
• Christmas tree (1928)
• ViVa (1931)
• No Thanks (1935)
• Collected Poems (1938)
• 50 Poems (1940)
• 1 × 1 (1940)
• pity this busy monster, manunkind (1944)
• XAIPE: Seventy-One Poems (1950)
• Poems, 1923–1954 (1954)
• 95 Poems (1958)
• Selected Poems 1923–1958 (1960)
• 73 Poems (1963)
• Etcetera: The Unpublished Poems (1983)
• Complete Poems, 1904–1962 (2008)
• Erotic Poems (2010)

In periodicals

• 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" (also in Tulips and Chimneys)
  • "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"
  • "The Lover Speaks"
• "Seven Poems", The Dial, Vol. 68, No. 1 (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) (transcription project)
  • "into the strenuous briefness"
  • "O sweet spontaneous"
  • "but the other"
  • "in Just-"
  • "spring omnipotent goddess Thou"
• "Puella Mea" (January, 1921, also in Tulips and Chimneys)

Drama

• Him (1927) (start transcription)
• Anthropos: or the Future of Art (1930)
• Tom (1935)
• Santa Claus: A Morality, 1946
• Three Plays and a Ballet (1967, containing all four dramatic works; reissued as The Theater of E. E. Cummings in 2013)

Others

• CIOPW (1931, art works)
• EIMI (1933, travelogue)
• i—six nonlectures (1953)
• E. E. Cummings: A Miscellany (1958)
• Fairy Tales (1965, collection of short stories)

Works about Cummings

• "Reading blank space from an ecopoetic perspective in selected poems by E.E. Cummings and William Carlos Williams" by Etienne J. Terblanche (2022-05-31) (start transcription)