Bøger af E. E. Cummings

This edition-newly typeset with an introduction by Stephen Dunn-presents the entirety of E.E. Cummings's transcendent body of work.

"No one else has ever made avant-garde, experimental poems so attractive to both the general and the special reader."-Randall Jarrell

In Great War¿era France, E. E. Cummings is lifted, along with his friend B., from his job as an ambulance driver with the Red Cross, and deposited in a jail in La Ferté Macé as a suspected spy. There his life consists of strolls in the cour, la soupe, and his mattress in The Enormous Room, the male prisoners¿ communal cell. It¿s these prisoners whom Cummings describes in lurid detail.The Enormous Room is far from a straightforward autobiographical diary. Cummings¿ descriptions, peppered liberally with colloquial French, avoid time and, for the most part, place, and instead focus on the personal aspects of his internment, especially in the almost metaphysical description of the most otherworldly of his compatriots: The Delectable Mountains.During his imprisonment, Cummings¿ father petitioned the U.S. and French authorities for his liberty. This, and his eventual return home, are described in the book¿s introduction.

An early autobiographical novel by the great American poet, closely based on his experiences in a French detention facility in World War I. Falsely suspected of spying for Germany, Cummings and a friend were detained in appallingly squalid conditions amid abusive guards and an international collection of people who would be misfits under most circumstances. Considered by F. Scott Fitzgerald to be the finest novel to emerge from the Great War, it remains a vivid tale documenting the stupidity and cruelty endemic to authorities afflicted equally with paranoia and power.fic

Darkly humorous and intensely energised, this fictionalised autobiography is a major work of World War I literature and is e.e. cummings' most notable novel.It's late August 1917, and in the midst of the raging Great War, a soon-to-be-famous modernist poet, e.e. cummings, is arrested by the French authorities on suspicion of espionage. While volunteering as an ambulance driver with the US military, cummings was imprisoned alongside his friend and fellow writer, William Slater Brown, after they were accused of including anti-war sentiments in their letters home. The Enormous Room is the ironically comedic memoir of cummings' time spent imprisoned in France. His famous wit and unorthodox approach to grammar are visibly emerging in this seminal work. The narrator's playful voice ensures the novel lacks any bitterness or melancholy that commonly accompanies literary accounts of hardship. The strange and colourful characters cummings is imprisoned with juxtapose the inhumanity of war, while highlighting the sense of comradery among those imprisoned in the enormous room.First published in 1922, The Enormous Room is a prose report of cummings' own personal enlightenment and a testimony of the war's psychological damage. Now in a new edition with an introductory poem by Anne Brontë, this volume is a great read for fans of cummings' poetry who wish to learn more about the modernist writer's fascinating mind.

e.e. cummings' fourth poetry collection demonstrates his skilled modernist voice and unmatched ability to test the limitations of the English language.

A master of modernist experimentation, e.e. cummings was one of the finest American poets of the Jazz Age. This collection features many of his greatest works including the long-form poem 'Puella Mea'.Over 300 poems are featured in this volume of e.e. cummings' collected poetry. The avant-garde writer is known for his experimentation with form, grammar, and typography. His work explores many themes that were considered taboo at the time, including eroticism, and his poetry is beautifully candid. cummings also utilises classic poetic themes such as the beauty of nature and the fragility of life, while giving these Romantic ideas a modern voice. Testing the limits of the English language, cummings' often omitted capitalisation and ignored spelling and syntax rules to present traditional poetic themes in a new, captivating manner.This volume is divided into three sections:- Poetry published in articles 1910-1920- Tulips and Chimneys- & (And)- XLI Poems- is 5This brand new collection has been published by specialist poetry imprint Ragged Hand, featuring an introductory biography of e.e. cummings. The volume would make the perfect read for fans of the modernist writer and experimental poetry.

E. E. Cummings, was an American poet, essayist, painter, author, and playwright. His body of work encompasses 2,900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays and several essays, as well as numerous paintings and drawings. He is remembered as an unsurpassed voice of 20th century poetry, as well as one of the most popular, even today. Cummings attended Harvard, receiving both his bachelor's and master's by 1916. A year later, he enlisted in the ambulance service as a driver with a friend for six months in France. Because of an error of the military censor, Cummings spent three months in a French prison. From this experience came "The Enormous Room", a prose account of life in a military prison that contains no traces of bitterness or self-pity commonly found in such works. Instead, Cummings looked at the daily life and the strange characters in the enormous room with the playful eye and original wit so often apparent in his poems. Readers will delight in this early work by one of America's most unique literary voices. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.

The Enormous Room is a fictionalized autobiographical account of the three months that E. E. Cummings spent in a French prison under suspicion of espionage-a circumstance he could have easily avoided had he professed a hatred of Germans. Instead, when questioned, Cummings answered French authorities in a way that insured that he would accompany his friend "B." (William Slater Brown), who was indeed guilty of writing letters critical of the French government. The psychologically tense narrative-shocking and provocative in its day-juxtaposes the barbarity and inhumanity of war against the camaraderie and collective spirit of the oppressed. As a piece of writing, it foreshadows the whimsy, humor, pessimism, and jubilance that would come to characterize Cummings's poetry while, on its own, it stands as a major work of World War I literature. This Warbler Classics edition includes Paul Headrick's essay "Brilliant Obscurity: The Reception of The Enormous Room," as well as a detailed biographical timeline.

Die Sammlung von E. E. Cummings Gedichten zeigt einen Querschnitt durch das lyrische Gesamtwerk des Dichters. Entstanden zwischen 1904 und 1962, stellt es nach wie vor einen Schatz von an die Tausend nie zuvor ins Deutsche übertragenen Gedichten dar. «Cummings heute zu übertragen, da die meisten seiner extravaganten Stilmittel und extrem pathetischen poetischen Forderungen überholt scheinen, heißt unter die Oberfläche zu sehen. Ein jedes besseres Gedicht hat den Anspruch, Körper zu sein. Es wölbt sich mir zu, um Entfernung zu verringern. Wortschöpfungen, Syntaxbrüche, Lettern-Fakes... alles, was die Dichter stiften, ist dabei als Einladung zu verstehen. Bei Cummings allerdings bemüht sich der Gedichtkörper unter Einsatz aller Kräfte um Sinnlichkeit. Jeder Buchstabe, jedes Komma erhält eine einmalige Präsenz. Das Lautliche wird Bild, das Bildliche Laut.» (Mirko Bonné)

Liebe, Humor, Frau, Mann. Kommt nun noch die Freude am sprachlichen Experiment dazu, ist man bei den erotischen Gedichten des amerikanischen Lyrikers und Malers E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) angelangt. Cummings liebt das Physische in allem, was er tut: Er liebt die Buchstaben, die Wörter. Und er liebt die Frauen, die Erotik, den Sex. So wie er immer wieder die sinnliche Einheit zweier Liebender und ihrer Körper feiert, so spielt er auch mit dem Körper der gedruckten Sprache: Er trennt und vereint die sprachlichen Körperteile, um sie zu neuen und überraschend lustvollen Bildern im Kopf der Leser werden zu lassen. Seine Gedichte bewegen sich dabei zwischen romantisch und obszön, zärtlich und derb, verspielt und frivol. Seine liebevollen erotischen Stellungnahmen entzücken und provozieren.Dieser Band vereint zum ersten Mal ausgewählte erotische Gedichte aus dem umfangreichen lyrischen Werk von E.E. Cummings.

A centenary edition of E. E. Cummings's antic autobiographical novel about his imprisonment in a French military detention camp during World War I.In 1917, after the entry of America into World War I, E. E. Cummings, a recent graduate of Harvard College, volunteered to serve on an ambulance corps in France. He arrived in Paris with a new friend, William Slater Brown, and they set about living it up in the big city before heading off to their assignment. Once in the field, they wrote irreverent letters about their experiences, which attracted the attention of the censors and ultimately led to their arrest. They were held for months in a military detention camp, sharing a single large room with a host of fellow detainees. It is this experience that Cummings relates in lightly fictionalized form in The Enormous Room, a book in which a tale of woe becomes an occasion of exuberant mischief. A free-spirited novel that displays the same formal swagger as his poems, a stinging denunciation of the stupidity of military authority, and a precursor to later books like Catch-22 and MASH, Cummings’s novel is an audacious, uninhibited, lyrical, and lasting contribution to American literature.

This Norton Critical Edition includes:166 poems spanning the range of Cummings's career, selections of his prose and dramatic writing, twelve paintings and sketches, and three facsimiles of his drafts-the first ever annotated and cross-genre collection of his work aimed at student readers.Annotations, headnotes and a thorough introduction by Milton A. Cohen, along with an essay by Cohen chronicling the development of Cummings's idiosyncratic style.Four contemporary reviews and six critical essays-by Randall Jarrell, Edmund Wilson, Isabelle Alfandary and Michael Webster, among others-prefaced by an overview.Comparative studies of two poems-featuring five different responses to each-designed to promote classroom discussion.A chronology, a selected bibliography and an index of the poems.

Confined to a private edition for decades, this volume sheds further light on E.E. Cummings's prodigious vision and imagination.

"Of all the work by young men who have sprung up since 1920 one book survives-The Enormous Room by E. E. Cummings."-F. Scott Fitzgerald

The complete collection of E. E. Cummings's writing for the stage, from the most inventive poet of the twentieth century.

A reissue of E. E. Cummings's long-unavailable, yet pointed and moving story of a journey through Soviet Russia.

"Cummings...at his most unfoolish and poetic best."-Nation

A paperback collection newly offset from Complete Poems 1904-1962 with an afterword by the Cummings scholar George James Firmage.

An eye-opening selection of Cumming's more avant-garde poetry and prose.

Reissued in an edition newly offset from the authoritative Complete Poems 1904-1962, edited by George James Firmage.