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E. E. Cummings: A Life (2014)

by Susan Cheever(Favorite Author)

3.59 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0307379973 (ISBN13: 9780307379979)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Pantheon

review 1: I really enjoyed reading about ee's influences: his uber-yankee upbringing, the mountains of New Hampshire, the joys of Paris, the chaos of Greenwich Village. Cheever also does a decent job tying certain milestones in his life to key poems, which give them an additional and pleasing dimension. most of all the book is a good reminder of how amazing the 1920s and 30s were for Anglo-American literature. immediately I want to re-read William Carlos Williams and all those guys again.
review 2: Really enjoyed learning more about Edelin Cummings- fascinating portrait of an unusual man. Particularly enjoyed the portrait of Cambridge and Harvard in the early 20th Century. The is a short biography so you can't expect a lot of detail but it was enough for me. Susan Chee... morever has some very astute observations and her personal spin makes it doubly interesting. My qualm with her writing is that her organization seems disjointed at times. I found this true with American Bloomsbury, too. I would like to read her book about her father as I am a fan of his short stories. less

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