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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Cheever, Susan (1943-....)
Titre(s) : E. E. Cummings [Texte imprimé] : a life / Susan Cheever
Publication : New York : Pantheon books, 2014
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XVII-213 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm
Comprend : Preface: A visit to the masters school ; Odysseus returns to Cambridge ; 104 Irving
Street ; Harvard ; The Western Front ; The enormous room ; Greenwich Village.
Elaine and Nancy ; Anne Barton and Josef Stalin ; Eimi and Marion Morehouse ; No
thanks ; Ezra Pound and Santa Claus ; Rebecca Clarke Cummings and Nancy Thayer
; I think I am falling in love with you. ; Readings . . . a new career ; Victory
and defeat ; Coda: Cummings' reputation in the twenty-first century ; Afterword:
Patchin place.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-200) and index
A major reassessment of the life and work of the novelist, painter, and playwright
considered to be one of America's preeminent twentieth-century poets. Cummings was
and remains controversial--called "a master" or "hideous." In Susan Cheever's rich
biography we see his idyllic childhood years in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his
sternly religious father and his loving, attentive mother. We see Cummings--slight,
agile, playful, a product of a nineteenth-century New England childhood; his love
of nature; his sense of fun, laughter, mimicry; his desire from the get-go to stand
conventional wisdom on its head. At Harvard, he earned two degrees, discovered alcohol,
fast cars, and burlesque, and raged against the school's exclusionary upper-class
rule. He grew into a dark young man and set out on a lifelong course of rebellion
against conventional authority. Headstrong and cavalier, he volunteered as an ambulance
driver in World War I, working alongside Hemingway and Joyce. He permanently fled
to Greenwich Village to be among other modernist poets of the day, and we see the
development of both the poet and his work against the backdrop of modernism. Cheever's
book gives us the evolution of an artist whose writing was at the forefront of what
was new and daring and bold in an America in transition.--From publisher description
Sujet(s) : Cummings, Edward Estlin (1894-1962)
Genre ou forme : Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780307379979. - ISBN 0307379973. - ISBN 9780307908674 (erroné) (electronic bk.).
- ISBN 0307908674 (erroné) (electronic bk.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44206071b
Notice n° :
FRBNF44206071
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