Edward Estlin Cummings, popularly known as E. E. Cummings' body of work encompasses approximately 2,900 poems, an autobiographical novel, four plays and several essays, as well as numerous drawings and paintings.
Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October 14, 1894. He began writing poems at an early age.
Between the ages of eight and twenty-two, he wrote a poem a day, exploring many traditional poetic forms. He studied Latin and Greek at the Cambridge Latin High School.
In 1917, Cummings published an early selection of poems in the anthology Eight Harvard Poets. In 1920, The Dial published seven poems by Cummings, including "Buffalo Bill ’s.”
Cummings' first collection of poems, Tulips and Chimneys, appeared in 1923.
During his lifetime, Cummings received a number of honors, including an Academy of American Poets Fellowship, two Guggenheim Fellowships, the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship at Harvard, the Bollingen Prize in Poetry in 1958, and a Ford Foundation grant.
At the time of his death, September 3, 1962, he was the second most widely read poet in the United States, after Robert Frost. He is buried in Forest Hills Cemetery in Boston, Massachusetts.
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