e.e. cummings "100 Selected Poems By e.e. cummings" Limited Edition, Leather Bound Collector's Edition [The Library of Great Poetry]

A rare leather bound collector's edition of 100 Selected Poems by e.e. cummings, one of the major poets of this century

Easton Press, Norwalk, CT. "100 Selected Poems by e.e. cummings" Leather bound limited edition. Collector's Edition. 132 pp. Small pocket size. [16 cm]. Bound in brown leather with gilt ornamentation on covers and gilt title stamped on spine. All edges gilt. Cream satin page marker laid in. Peach moiré endpapers. From The Library of Great Poetry. Bound in genuine leather.

E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) was among the most influential, widely read, and revered modernist poets. His many awards included an Academy of American Poets Fellowship, two Guggenheim Fellowships, and the Bollingen Prize. Among his many volumes are The Enormous Room and Tulips & Chimneys.

E.E. Cummings is without question one of the major poets of this century, and this volume, first published in 1959, is indispensable for every lover of modern lyrical verse. It contains one hundred of Cummings's wittiest and most profound poems, harvested from thirty-five of the most radically creative years in contemporary American poetry. These poems exhibit all the extraordinary lyricism, playfulness, technical ingenuity, and compassion for which Cummings is famous. They demonstrate beautifully his extrapolations from traditional poetic structures and his departures from them, as well as the unique synthesis of lavish imagery and acute artistic precision that has won him the adulation and respect of critics and poetry lovers everywhere.

Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962), often written in all lowercase as e e cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. He wrote approximately 2,900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays, and several essays. He is often regarded as one of the most important American poets of the 20th century. Cummings is associated with modernist free-form poetry. Much of his work has idiosyncratic syntax and uses lower-case spellings for poetic expression.