E. E. -- or e.e.?
Odd to find the name capitalized in this book's title, "e.e. cummings" being the enabling progenitor of a million lower-case poems, but his biographer, [Christopher Sawyer-Lau]çanno, tells us that at most other times -- times outside poems -- this is how his subject styled himself. Th...
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| Published in | Globe and mail |
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| Format | Newspaper Article |
| Language | English |
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Toronto, Ont
The Globe and Mail
18.12.2004
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| Summary: | Odd to find the name capitalized in this book's title, "e.e. cummings" being the enabling progenitor of a million lower-case poems, but his biographer, [Christopher Sawyer-Lau]çanno, tells us that at most other times -- times outside poems -- this is how his subject styled himself. That insistent lower-case usage (all those little i's instead of big I's in the poems) probably cost him a lot of mainline readers, but when you think about it, what's so special? |
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| ISSN: | 0319-0714 |