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[anyone lived in a pretty how town]
E.E. Cummings, “[anyone lived in a pretty how town]” from Complete Poems 1904-1962, edited by George J. Firmage. Copyright 1926, 1954, 1991 by the Trustees for the E.E. Cummings Trust. Copyright © 1985 by George James Firmage. Reprinted with the permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.
Source: Poetry (August 1940).
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Biography
"Among the most innovative of twentieth-century poets," according to Jenny Penberthy in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, E. E. Cummings experimented with poetic form and language to create a distinct personal style. A Cummings poem is spare and precise, employing a few key words eccentrically placed on the page. Some of these words were invented by Cummings, often by combining two common words into a new synthesis. He also . . .
Poems by E. E. Cummings
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Men & Women, Coming of Age, Relationships, Time & Brevity, Youth, Living, Death
POET’S REGION U.S., New England
SCHOOL / PERIOD Modern
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