E. E. Cummings | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 2 pages of analysis & critique of E. E. Cummings.

E. E. Cummings | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 2 pages of analysis & critique of E. E. Cummings.
This section contains 341 words
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[Here's] a book that exists because the author was so moved, excited, amused by a certain slice of his existence that things happened freely and cantankerously on paper. And he had the nerve to let things happen…. The Enormous Room seems to me to be the book that has nearest approached the mood of reckless adventure in which men will reach the white heat of imagination needed to fuse the soggy disjointed complexity of the industrial life about us into seething fluid of creation. There can be no more playing safe. (p. 98)

Along with Sandburg and Sherwood Anderson, E. E. Cummings takes the rhythms of our American speech as the material of his prose as of his verse. It is writing created in the ear and lips and jotted down. For accuracy in noting the halting cadences of talk and making music of it, I don't know anything...

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