E. E. Cummings' modernism and the classics: each imperishable stanza

Synopsis

This Volume Is A Major, Ground-breaking Study Of The Modernist E. E. Cummings' Engagement With The Classics. With His Experimental Form And Syntax, His Irreverence, And His Rejection Of The Highbrow, There Are Probably Few Current Readers Who Would Name Cummings If Asked To Identify 20th-century Anglophone Poets In The Classical Tradition. But For Most Of His Life, And Even For Ten Or Twenty Years After His Death, This Is How Many Readers And Critics Did See Cummings. He Specialised In The Study Of Classical Literature As An Undergraduate At Harvard, And His Contemporaries Saw Him As A 'pagan' Poet Or A 'juvenalian' Satirist, With An Aristophanic Sense Of Humour. In E.e. Cummings' Modernism And The Classics, Alison Rosenblitt Aims To Recover For The Contemporary Reader This Lost Understanding Of Cummings As A Classicizing Poet. J. Alison Rosenblitt. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 339-357) And Indexes.