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How E.E. Cummings Writes A Poem

2016-03-02

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SOURCES

Roi Tartakovsky, “E. E. Cummings's Parentheses: Punctuation as Poetic Device” Style

Vol. 43, No. 2, Temporal Paradoxes in Fiction and Stylistics in American Literatures (Summer 2009), pp. 215-247

http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/s...

Martin Heusser, “Transcendental Modernism: E. E. Cummings’ Moon Poems” Aspects of Modernism: Studies in Honour of Max Nänny (1997)

https://books.google.com/books?id=iif...

Martin Heusser, “Unity Through Duality: Paradox Between The Relation of Self and Other in the Poetry of E.E. Cummings” Das Paradox: eine Herausforderung des abendländischen Denkens (2002)

https://books.google.com/books?id=y10...

Nicolas Ansel, “E.E. Cummings, Revisited” (A thesis submitted to the faculty of Wesleyan University) (2012)

http://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/cgi/vi...

Ralph J. Mills, Jr., “The Poetry of Innocence: Notes on E. E. Cummings” The English Journal, Vol. 48, No. 8 (Nov., 1959), pp. 433-442

Rudolph von Abele, "Only to Grow": Change in the Poetry of E. E. Cummings” PMLA, Vol. 70, No. 5 (Dec., 1955), pp. 913-933

Raw audio of Cummings reading "i carry your heart with me"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4Qb9...

FURTHER READING

e.e. cummings, i: six nonlectures (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)

http://www.amazon.com/nonlectures-Cha...

Eve Triem, “E.E. Cummings” University of Minnesota Pamphlet on American Writers No. 87 (1969)

https://books.google.com/books?id=oox...

nathan tebokkel, “E.E. Cummings and Pataphysical Love” (via Post-Scriptum)

http://www.post-scriptum.org/e-e-cumm...


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