Results for 'e e cummings'

1. E. E. Cummings

Selected Poems

"No one else has ever made avant-garde, experimental poems so attractive to both the general and the special reader."—Randall Jarrell

Concrete Poetry

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Concrete poetry or Size poetry is poetry in which the typographical arrangement of words is as important in conveying the intended effect as the conventional elements of the poem, such as meaning of words, rhythm, rhyme and so on. It is sometimes referred to as visual poetry, a term that has evolved to have distinct meaning of its own, but which shares the distinction of being poetry in which the visual elements are as important as the text. The term was coined in the 1950s. In 1956 an international exhibition of concrete poetry was shown in São Paulo, Brazil, by the group Noigandres (Augusto and Haroldo de Campos, Décio Pignatari and Ronaldo Azeredo) with the poets Ferreira Gullar and Wlademir Dias Pino. Two years later, a Brazilian concrete poetry manifesto was published. One of the earliest Brazilian pioneers, Augusto de Campos, has assembled a Web site of old and new work, including the manifesto.

1. E. E. , Cummings

The Enormous Room

In Great War-era France, E. E. Cummings is lifted, along with his friend B., from his job as an ambulance driver with the Red Cross, and deposited in a jail in La Ferté Macé as a suspected spy. There his life consists of strolls in the cour, la soupe, and his mattress in The Enormous Room, the male prisoners' communal cell. It's these prisoners whom Cummings describes in lurid detail.The Enormous Room is far from a straightforward autobiographical diary. Cummings' descriptions, peppered liberally with colloquial French, avoid time and, for the most part, place, and instead focus on the personal aspects of his internment, especially in the almost metaphysical description of the most otherworldly of his compatriots: The Delectable Mountains.During his imprisonment, Cummings' father petitioned the U.S. and French authorities for his liberty. This, and his eventual return home, are described in the book's introduction.

1919 in poetry

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online."Considering that, all hatred driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence, And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, And that its own sweet will is heaven's will; She can, though every face should scowl, And every windy quarter howl, Or every bellows burst, be happy still." From A Prayer for My Daughter by W. B. Yeats, first published this year. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

1. Norman Friedman

E. E. Cummings

“I admire the efficiency and thoroughness of this book. Almost all of the factual con clusions and informative observations are in disputable… Cummings’s vision emerges significantly in his middle and later volumes, as Mr. Friedman points out.”—R. E. Wegner, American Literature “The poems are discussed with expert ness and with critical joy, by Mr. Friedman, who treats cummings’s books in this full and notable study. It deals not only with the poet’s lyric and comic aspects, but very im portantly examines the ‘basic mystical in sight which is the real foundation of his work.’ Twentieth-century readers owe e. e. cummings a great debt for being the grand and joyful poet that he was; they also owe a debt to Mr. Friedman for interpreting his writings.”—Harry T. Moore

1. Terry Eagleton

Modernism

“Mr. Eagleton makes the reasonable point that ‘the new is not desirable in itself.’ . . . In one of many quips in Modernism, he remarks that ‘novelty is just the same old thing.’”—James Campbell, Wall Street Journal“Eagleton, alert to rash generalizations and simplistic explanations, is a tonic for lazy thinking and his new book Modernism is an intelligent and lively overview of the twentieth century’s artistic revolution.”—Sean Sheehan, The Prisma“A finely judged, beautifully articulated, typically witty, and consistently surprising account of literary modernism written by one of contemporary criticism’s most trailblazing thinkers.”—Nathan Waddell, author of A Bright Cold Day: The Wonder of George Orwell“To read Terry Eagleton on modernism is to be in such good and gentle company as almost to feel you are encountering one of modernism’s own most compelling figures, a figure to whom Eagleton himself in passing refers—namely, the one who, in The Waste Land, is said to be always ‘walking beside you.’”—John Schad, author of Paris Bride: A Modernist Life“Through its deft and vivid account, Eagleton’s Modernism brilliantly interweaves literature with its political, economic and philosophical hinterland as it measures modernism against alternative avant-gardes. The book is written and shaped to make the period startlingly fresh for all readers.”—Steven Matthews, author of On Magnetism“This is the sort of light-footed dash through the meanings of modernism that is only available to those with decades of scholarly experience. . . . A vital account of the crises to which modernism responded, its own exhaustion and disillusionment, and its cementing in contemporary teaching and the wider imagination.”—Abbie Garrington, author of Haptic Modernism: Touch and the Tactile in Modernist Writing