Skip to main content

Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1894-11-14 - 1962-09-03

Found in 93 Collections and/or Records:

The Enormous Room / cummings, e.e. ; Kennedy R ; Firmage G., 1978

 Item
Identifier: CC-18893-19271
Scope and Contents

This is a reprint with corrections and additions from the original manuscript of this novel first published in 1922. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

The Hand of the Poet: Poems and Papers in Manuscript / Phillips, Rodney, editor ; Carroll L ; cummings ee ; Ginsberg A ; Kunitz S ; Padgett R ; Olson C ; Snyder G ; Smith WJ ; Blake W ; Kerouac J., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-27706-28797
Scope and Contents The two-part exhibition "The Hand of the Poet: Original Manuscripts by 100 Masters" was organized by Rodney Phillips, curator of the Berg Collection, as part of the Centennial celebration of The New York Public Library. This catalogue is based on the exhibitions which presented writers from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries with drafts, letters, diaries. photographs and memorabilia in a personal and intimate setting. An essay by Dana Gioia, "The Prado of Poetry: A History of the Berg Collection" describes the background of Dr. Albert and Dr. Henry Berg and how their collection became one of the world's primary sources for literary research on American and English writers. In a scholarly introductory essay, "The Magical Value of Manuscripts," Dana Gioia writes, "The manuscript of a literary work became more than words; it represented a direct and unmediated physical link between viewer and author - a holy relic or shamanistic fetish...The scholarly alibi of libraries that...
Dates: 1997

The Objectivist Nexus: Essays in Cultural Poetics / DuPlessis, Rachel Blau, editor ; Quartermain, Peter, editor ; Altieri C ; Bernstein C ; Crozier A ; DuPlessis RB ; Quartermain P ; Zukofsky L ; Oppen G ; Bunting B ; Niedecker L ; Olson C ; Ashbery J ; Duncan R ; Pound E ; Adorno T ; Andrews B ; Barthes R ; Bataille G ; Berrigan T ; Cendrars B ; Creeley R ; cummings ee ; Derrida J ; Eshleman C ; Ginsberg A ; Grenier R ; Hejinian L ; Howe S ; Joyce J ; Jacob M ; Lewis WP ; Lucie-Smith E ; Lyotard JF ; Mallarme S ; Perelman B ; Perloff M ; Picabia F ; Ponge F ; Rimbaud A ; Rothenberg J ; Silliman R ; Stein G ; Tzara T ; Waldrop R ; Yeats WB., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-43015-45060
Scope and Contents This anthology deals with a critical analysis of the Objectivists poets, a designation that began with Louis Zukovsky in the 1930's.Paperbackbookshop: "Objectivist" writers, conjoined through a variety of personal, ideological, and literary-historical links, have, from the late 1920s to the present, attracted emulation and suspicion. Representing a nonsymbolist, postimagist poetics and characterized by a historical, realist, antimythological worldview, Objectivists have retained their outsider status. Despite such status, however, the formal, intellectual, ideological, and ethical concerns of the Objectivist nexus have increasingly influenced poetry and poetics in the United States.Thus, argue editors Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Peter Quartermain, the time has come for an anthology that unites essential works on Objectivist practices and presents Objectivist writing as an enlargement of the possibilities of poetry rather than as a determinable and definable literary movement. The...
Dates: 1999

The Poetry Circus / Coblentz, Stanton ; Patchen K ; cummings ee ; Pound E ; Olson C ; Duncan R ; Finlay IH ; Blazek D., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-17375-17740
Scope and Contents

Coblentz expresses highly negative feelings about contemorary poets writing experimental and concrete poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

U&lc. No.3/Sum / Licko Z ; Caxton W ; Ray M ; cummings ee ; Thomas D ; Roth D ; Lamantia P ; Finlay IH ; Herbert G ; Marinetti FT ; Morgenstern C ; Apollinaire G ; Gomringer E ; Muller Ma ; Costin J., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-33292-34925
Scope and Contents

This issue contains illustrated articles on the genesis of the letter 'L,' film posters, and "Love Letters." Allan Haley contributed a biography entitled, "William Caxton: The Modest Translator." Marion Muller's essay "Meant to Be Seen and Not Heard" about concrete and shaped poetry dealt with an exhibition of Arion Press' Shaped Poetry portfolio at MJS Books & Graphics in New York. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Xaipe: Seventy-One Poems / cummings, e.e.., 1950

 Item
Identifier: CC-20623-21025
Scope and Contents

This is the second printing of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1950