E.E. Cummings

Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962), usually abbreviated E. E. Cummings, e. and. cummings or e e cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist and playwright. Although he did not approve of the practice, his editors frequently wrote his name with lowercase letters to represent his unusual syntax.

Cummings is known for his poems that break with all structure, including unorthodox uses of capitalization and punctuation, in which semicolons could even interrupt sentences and even words. Many of his poems are also written without respect to lines and paragraphs and some do not seem to make sense until they are read aloud.

Despite Cummings' taste for avant-garde styles and unusual typography, much of his work is traditional. In fact, many of her poems are sonnets. Cummings' poetry frequently deals with the themes of love and nature, as well as satire and the relationship of the individual to the masses and the world.

He published more than 900 poems, two novels, many essays and a large number of drawings, sketches and paintings. He is considered one of the most important voices in poetry of the 20th century .

Prizes

E. E. Cummings received many awards during his career, including:

• Dial (1925)
• Guggenheim Fellowship (1933)
• Shelley Poetry Memorial (1944)
• Harriet Monroe of the magazine Poetry (1950)
• Fellowship of American Academy of Poets (1950)
• Guggenheim Fellowship (1951)
• Charles Eliot Norton Professorship at Harvard (1952-1953)
• Special appointment of the National Book Award Committee for its Poems, 1923-1954 (1957)
• Bollingen de Poesía (1957)
• Boston Arts Festival Award (1957)
• Concession of $15,000 from the Ford Foundation for two years (1959)