The Beauty of Living : E. E. Cummings in the Great War
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Cambridge -- Harvard -- Montmartre -- The front -- La Ferté-Macé -- Freedom.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2020]
Year Published: 2020
Description: xii, 335 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780393246964
0393246965
SUBJECTS
Cummings, E. E. -- 1894-1962 -- Childhood and youth.
Cummings, E. E. -- 1894-1962 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Literature and the war.