Cummings
Unconventional American poet
Cummings is an English surname, most notably associated with the American poet E.
E.
Cummings, known for unconventional syntax and lowercase typography.
The name also appears in politics, business, and entertainment: Attorney General Cummings, Cummings & Cummings Law Firm.
Derives from a Scottish place name.
Innovative cultural pioneers
- imagistMental picture creator
- cubismGeometric, fragmented visual style
- futurismStudy of tomorrow's possibilities
- dadaismAbsurdist artistic movement
surrealism · expressionism · Ezra Pound · Gertrude Stein · free verse · experimental poetry · Paris · 1920s
Prestigious Cambridge university
- CambridgeUniversity city, two countries
- Greenwich VillageManhattan's bohemian quarter
- lowercaseUncapitalized letter form
- lyric poetryMusical personal verse form
experimental · idiosyncratic · nonconformist · bohemian · pacifist · painter
Uncapitalized letter form
- capitalizationUsing big letters properly
- punctuationWritten clarity symbols
- spacingInterval arrangement between objects
- line breaksText row separations
word spacing · parentheses · ampersand · syntax · fragmentation · enjambment · page layout · orthography
Study of family descent
- ancestryFamily line of descent
- lineageDescent from progenitors
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- family nameHereditary portion of identity
Scottish · English · patronymic · descendants · forebears · clan · bloodline · kin
avant-garde
Innovative cultural pioneers
- imagistMental picture creator
- cubismGeometric, fragmented visual style
- futurismStudy of tomorrow's possibilities
dadaism · surrealism · expressionism · Ezra Pound · Gertrude Stein · free verse · experimental poetry · Paris · 1920s · Lost Generation
Harvard
Prestigious Cambridge university
- CambridgeUniversity city, two countries
- Greenwich VillageManhattan's bohemian quarter
- lowercaseUncapitalized letter form
lyric poetry · experimental · idiosyncratic · nonconformist · bohemian · pacifist · painter
lowercase
Uncapitalized letter form
- capitalizationUsing big letters properly
- punctuationWritten clarity symbols
- spacingInterval arrangement between objects
line breaks · word spacing · parentheses · ampersand · syntax · fragmentation · enjambment · page layout · orthography · neologism
genealogy
Study of family descent
family name · Scottish · English · patronymic · descendants · forebears · clan · bloodline · kin · nomenclature
- American LiteratureThe Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Scarlet Letter, Moby-Dick, Moby Dick
- ModernistsPicasso, Duchamp, Kandinsky, Mondrian, Stravinsky
CummingsRobert Frost
Alexander Pope · T.S. Eliot · John Milton · William Wordsworth · Robert Browning
- E.E. CummingsAvant-garde American poet
comes, coming, comers, upcoming, incoming, oncoming, outcomes