Dreams in the Mirror: A Biography of E.E. CummingsW. W. Norton & Company, 1994 - 529 pages Along with Pound, Eliot, and Joyce, Edward Estlin Cummings is one of the leading American poets who revolutionized literary expression in the twentieth century. He was also a Cubist painter, a champion of the little man, a brilliant conversationalist, a romantic idealist, a famous irrational curmudgeon, and husband to three of the most beautiful women of his time. This critical biography merges these various selves into one fascinating life story, many chapters of which could be mistaken for a great romantic novel. In following Cummings's development as a poet, it also includes a large number of previously unpublished poems and drawings. |
Contents
An Introduction to Someone and anyone | 3 |
Origins | 8 |
The Realm of the Goatfooted Balloonman | 19 |
Longfellow s Latest Disciple | 35 |
The Harvard Experience Studies | 52 |
The Harvard Experience Verse Friends Rebellion | 73 |
The Poet Finds a Patron | 105 |
The Emergent Styles | 115 |
The Ordeals of Olaf and Estlin | 316 |
The Unworld Visited | 327 |
Marion | 336 |
Gratitude to Almost No One | 350 |
A Stranger in the Supercolossal West 1935 | 359 |
The Undanced Tom | 371 |
The War | 378 |
Oneness and Santa Claus | 399 |
The Pacifist Warrior 1917 | 133 |
A War time Interlude | 159 |
Private Cummings 1918 | 172 |
Elaine | 189 |
Some Firsts | 202 |
The Great War Seen from the Windows of Nowhere | 216 |
Europe 19211924 | 226 |
Disaster | 249 |
The Struggle for Nancy | 266 |
Anne and Him | 281 |
Anne and Russia | 304 |
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