XPost: alt.usage.english, alt.poetry   
   From: HenHanna@devnull.tb   
      
   On 9/3/2024 5:03 PM, Ross Clark wrote:   
   > Born Edward Estlin Cummings, Cambridge MA, 1894. Father was a Harvard   
   > professor, later Unitarian minister.   
   > "His penchant for lower-case was extended to his initials by one of his   
   > publishers, and the practice caught on, though he himself usually kept   
   > the capitals." (Crystal)   
   >   
      
   > anyone lived in a pretty how town   
   > (with up so floating many bells down)   
   > spring summer autumn winter   
   > he sang his didn't he danced his did   
   >   
   > Women and men (both little and small)   
   > cared for anyone not at all   
   > they sowed their isn't they reaped their same   
   > sun moon stars rain             (1940)   
   >   
   > "The seeds of Cummings' unconventional style appear well established   
   > even in his earliest work. At age six, he wrote to his father:   
   >   
   >      FATHER DEAR. BE, YOUR FATHER-GOOD AND GOOD,   
   >      HE IS GOOD NOW, IT IS NOT GOOD TO SEE IT RAIN,   
   >      FATHER DEAR IS, IT, DEAR, NO FATHER DEAR,   
   >      LOVE, YOU DEAR,   
   >      ESTLIN.   
   >   
   > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._E._Cummings   
      
      
      
    > anyone lived in a pretty how town   
    > (with up so floating many bells down)   
    > spring summer autumn winter   
    > he sang his didn't he danced his did   (1940)   
      
   Several weeks ago,  i listened to a recording of  EEC  himself   
   reading this and it wasnt at all like how i imagined.   
      
      
   if you've read  [The Enormous Room],  pls  tell me about   
             a passage or scene that you remember.   (i remember Nothing)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)