E.E. Cummings
Unconventional American poet
E.E.
Cummings was an American poet known for his experimental typography and unconventional punctuation.
His poems scatter words across the page, abandon capitalization, and fragment syntax: l(a leaf falls)oneliness.
The lowercase styling "e.e. cummings" is often attributed to him but wasn't his preference—he signed his name conventionally.
- poetryMetrical literary composition
- free versePoetry without fixed structure
- lowercaseUncapitalized letter form
- punctuationWritten clarity symbols
- modernistAdvocate of experimental forms
lower case letters · avant-garde · typewriter · word play · Cambridge · Harvard · sonnets · experimental · spacing · parentheses · love · spring · tulips · Buffalo Bill · Greenwich Village · painter · Paris · unconventional
- poetspoet, Homer, Dante, Milton, Emily Dickinson
- 20th Century AuthorsErnest Hemingway, Hemingway, William Faulkner, Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- American ModernismGeorgia O'Keeffe, Edward Hopper, Ashcan School, Man Ray, Gertrude Stein
- American PoetryWalt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes
- Modernist WritersJoyce, Virginia Woolf, Woolf, T.S. Eliot, Eliot
- Poet-PaintersWilliam Blake, Kurt Schwitters, Khalil Gibran
poetic form and convention
E.E. CummingsAlexander Pope
Georgian era versifier
Robert Frost · John Milton · Longfellow · traditional verse · W.B. Yeats