American Poet Research Assignment

E.E. Cummings

Childhood

• He was born on 14 October, 1894 in Cambridge Massachusetts
• Since childhood, he wanted to become a poet and his parents encouraged him to develop his creative gifts
• He started to write poetry at the age of eight

Schooling

• He went to Harvard University and earned both his BA and a MA by 1916

Influence

• He was influenced by Gertrude Stein's syntactical
• He was influenced by Amy Lowell's imagistic experiments

Famous Works

• I Carry Your Heart With Me
• In Just-
• Buffalo Bill's
• Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town
• Somewhere I Have Never Traveled Gladly Beyond

Interesting Detail

Reasons for Choosing Him:

• Because I knew he was a popular poet
• Some of his poetry lines I have read/heard and I like a lot of them

Sources

• http://www.anb.org/cush_poetry.html
• http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/e-e-cummings-160.php
• http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/cummings/cummings_life.htm
• https://learnodo-newtonic.com/ee-cummings-famous-poems