e.e. cummings

Edward Estlin Cummings (who famously signed his poetry e.e. cummings) was a paradoxical poet who combined playfulness with seriousness; close attention to rhythm and rhyme with wild experimentation in grammar, spelling, and punctuation; and complicated ideas and images with simple words. Despite the experimental quality of his work, he was tremendously popular during his lifetime, a tribute rarely given to poets. In fact, critics tended to trivialize his work, characterizing it as naïve and sentimental. He studied at Harvard University. Morally opposed to combat, he served in ...