Born October 14, 1894, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, just blocks away from Harvard Yard, Edward Estlin Cummings (known as e. e. cummings) grew up in a happy and intellectually stimulating household. His father, Edward Cummings, was a Harvard professor and, later, a Unitarian minister, who fostered a love for books and knowledge in his children. His mother, Rebecca Haswell Clarke, was descended from a long line ofNew England writers and intellectuals. One of them, Susanna Haswell Rowson, wrote Charlotte Temple, considered by many literary historians to be the first American novel.
As a child, cummings's artistic and literary interests were encouraged by his parents, and he determined early that he wanted to become a poet. After graduating fromCambridge Latin School, cummings entered Harvard, where he studied poetry and the visual arts and contributed poems to the Harvard.....
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