E.E. Cummings





E.E. Cummings

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born
October 14, 1894 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, The United States

died
September 03, 1962

gender
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Edward Estlin Cummings, popularly known as e.e. cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, and playwright. His body of work encompasses more than 900 poems, several plays and essays, numerous drawings, sketches, and paintings, as well as two novels. He is remembered as a preeminent voice of 20th century poetry, as well as one of the most popular.


Average rating: 4.33 · 20,909 ratings · 877 reviews · 84 distinct works
100 Selected Poems
4.37 of 5 stars 4.37 avg rating — 7,038 ratings — published 1954 — 4 editions
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Complete Poems, 1904-1962
4.41 of 5 stars 4.41 avg rating — 5,738 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions
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Selected Poems
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4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 2,294 ratings — published 1960 — 5 editions
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Tulips and Chimneys
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4.43 of 5 stars 4.43 avg rating — 537 ratings — published 1923 — 4 editions
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95 Poems
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4.37 of 5 stars 4.37 avg rating — 500 ratings — published 1958 — 3 editions
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The Enormous Room
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 563 ratings — published 1922 — 51 editions
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I Six Nonlectures
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 289 ratings4 editions
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AnOther E. E. Cummings
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Etcetera: The Unpublished P...
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e. e. cummings: A Selection...
4.4 of 5 stars 4.40 avg rating — 217 ratings — published 1963 — 3 editions
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More books by E.E. Cummings…
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
E.E. Cummings

“I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)I am never without it (anywhere
I go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling)
I fear no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet)I want no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)”
E.E. Cummings

“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”
E.E. Cummings

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Who is your favorite poet? (add to this list if needed)

 
  40 votes, 14.5%

 
  23 votes, 8.4%

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  21 votes, 7.6%

Emily Dickinson
 
  16 votes, 5.8%

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  14 votes, 5.1%

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  11 votes, 4.0%

 
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  5 votes, 1.8%

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  5 votes, 1.8%

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  4 votes, 1.5%

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