E. E. Cummings: Complete Poems, 1904-1962 (Liveright Classics) [Hardcover] Author: E. E. Cummings | Language: English | ISBN:
0871407108 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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Now presented in a beautiful new edition, Complete Poems 1904–1962 showcases E. E. Cummings’s transcendent body of work, collected in its entirety.
This edition of E. E. Cummings’s Complete Poems contains all the poems published or designated for publication by the poet in his lifetime, including 36 poems that were first collected in the 1991 edition and 164 unpublished poems issued in 1983 under the title Etcetera. Combining Thoreau’s controlled belligerence with the brash abandon of an uninhibited bohemian, Cummings, together with Pound, Eliot, and William Carlos Williams, helped bring about the twentieth-century revolution in literary expression. Today, Cummings is recognized as the author of some of the most beautiful lyric poems in the English language as well as one of the most inventive American poets of his time—in the words of Richard Kostelanetz, “the major American poet of the middle-twentieth century.” Formally fractured and yet gleefully alive and whole, at once cubistic and figurative, Cummings’s work expanded the boundaries of what language is and can do.
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- Series: Liveright Classics
- Hardcover: 1136 pages
- Publisher: Liveright; 1 edition (September 23, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0871407108
- ISBN-13: 978-0871407108
- Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.1 x 2.1 inches
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I should begin with a disclaimer: though e e cummings is by all the standard measures (prizes, books in print, appearances in anthologies, critical attention) a major poet, he has always seemed to me a distinctly minor one. His major technical innovation, the use of wildly non-standard typography to explore how a poem could be constructed from type which didn't form words in the conventional sense, did have the merit of helping to open up mainstream modernist poetry to this sort of experimentation. But ultimately, I think that technique has proved to be a frill, and I've always felt that cummings most attractive poems were his most conventional -- pieces like "All in green went my love riding" or "My father moved through dooms of love" -- which, while too often tinged with adolescent sentimentality, at their best achieve a charmingly naive romanticism.
E. E. Cummings: Complete Poems in its over 1000 pages includes corrected versions of all cummings' published poems and a significant number of unpublished ones. The only ancillary matter is a one page Editor's Note and an index of first lines: there is no critical or biographical introduction or commentary or footnotes. The book has some physical production flaws surprising in what is clearly intended to be a major scholarly work: in some places for instance the print seems slightly smudged (at least in the copy I am looking at as I write this,) and the bottom margin is uncomfortably narrow, giving a cramped look to pages where a poem runs over to the next page.
At any rate, I would have different recommendations of this book for different audiences. If you are really seriously interested in cummings, you must have it, since it is undoubtedly the current standard complete edition of his verse.
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