The beauty of living : E. E. Cummings in the Great War

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Label

The beauty of living : E. E. Cummings in the Great War

Title remainder

E. E. Cummings in the Great War

Statement of responsibility

J. Alison Rosenblitt

Creator

• Rosenblitt, J. Alison, (Jennifer Alison)

Author

• Rosenblitt, J. Alison, (Jennifer Alison)

Subject

• Biographies
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Cummings, E. E., (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962
• Cummings, E. E., (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962 -- Childhood and youth
• Cummings, E. E., (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962 -- Criticism and interpretation
• Poets, American
• 1900-1999
• War and literature
• World War, 1914-1918 -- Literature and the war
• Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography
• Biographies

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Biography
• Biographies

Language

eng

Summary

"An incisive biography of E. E. Cummings's early life explores his World War I ambulance service, which inspired his inventive poetry. Renowned for his formally fractured, gleefully alive poetry, E. E. Cummings is not often thought of as a war poet. But his experience as a prisoner during the war in La Ferté-Macé (the basis for his first work of prose, The Enormous Room), and his first love, the French prostitute Marie Louise Lallemand, escalated his earliest breaks with conventional form-the innovation with which his name would soon become synonymous. The Beauty of Living follows Cummings from his Cambridge upbringing and Harvard education through his time at the front during the Great War. Probing an under-examined yet formative time in the poet's life, this deeply researched account illuminates his ideas about love, justice, humanity, and brutality. Cummings scholar J. Alison Rosenblitt weaves together letters, journal entries, and sketches with astute analyses of poems that span Cummings's career, revealing the origins of one of the twentieth century's most famous poets"--

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Provided by publisher

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

811/.52

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

PS3505.U334

LC item number

Z834 2020

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography