It is my intention in this study to make a critique of the sonnets of E. E. Cummings, and it is my thesis that these poems reflect, as a kind of microcosm of his whole work, his major themes as well as the growth of his vision of the way a man ought to conduct his life in the world. I believe that Cummings- sonnets provide a significant insight into the development of his mature lebensphilosophie and define an aesthetic stance against which his whole achievement can be measured. In his second "non-lecture" at Harvard ...
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It is my intention in this study to make a critique of the sonnets of E. E. Cummings, and it is my thesis that these poems reflect, as a kind of microcosm of his whole work, his major themes as well as the growth of his vision of the way a man ought to conduct his life in the world. I believe that Cummings- sonnets provide a significant insight into the development of his mature lebensphilosophie and define an aesthetic stance against which his whole achievement can be measured. In his second "non-lecture" at Harvard University in 1952, entitled n i and their son," Edward Estlin Cummings told his audience how he had been introduced to the sonnets of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: his Cambridge neighbor, the renowned Josiah Royce, having learned that the youth Cummings liked and wrote poetry, had invited him into his study, where he 1 intoned "lovingly and beautifully, his favorite poems." Cummings admitted to the suspicion, although not to the certainty, that this experience was the reason he had written sonnets throughout his career.
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