#  Edward Estlin Cummings 

 



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 Attended Harvard (A.B. 1915; A.M. 1916)  
Taught at Harvard (Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer, 1952-1953) Sort   



    





  [Academy of American Poets Biography](http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/156) 





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  [*American National Biography* Online](http://www.anb.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/articles/16/16-00394.html) 





    





  [The Poetry Foundation Biography](http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=81323) 





  



 

    Sort   ##  HARVARD COLLECTIONS 

 





    **General Overview** 





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  [HOLLIS Catalog Author Search: Edward Estlin Cummings](http://lms01.harvard.edu/F/?func=find-c&CCL_TERM=WAN=(%22Cummings,%20E.%20E.%20Edward%20Estlin,%201894-1962%22)&adjacent=1) 





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  [HOLLIS Catalog Subject Search: Edward Estlin Cummings](http://lms01.harvard.edu/F/?func=find-c&CCL_TERM=WSN=(%22Cummings,%20E.%20E.%20Edward%20Estlin,%201894-1962%22%20)&adjacent=1) 





    **Rare Materials** 





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  [Finding Aid: E. E. Cummings Letters to Frances Ames Randall, 1953-1962](http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou00006)   
Includes E. E. Cummings' letters to Frances Ames Randall, with letters from Marjorie Gifford and Marion Morehouse to Randall, and also drawings by Cummings. 





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  [Finding Aid: Ezra Pound Letters to E. E. Cummings , 1926-1962](http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou00917)   
Includes 157 letters from Ezra Pound to E. E. Cummings; 5 letters from Pound to Marion Morehouse Cummings; one telegram from Cummings to Pound; and letters to Cummings from Douglas Duncan Paige, Dorothy Pound, and Omar Pound. 





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  [Finding Aid: Additional Papers, 1922-1955 and undated](http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou00553)   
Includes autograph manuscript notes and poems, drawings, self-portrait sketches, photographs, ephemera, and clippings. 





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  [Finding Aid: Additional Papers, 1870-1969](http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou01075)   
Includes correspondence, manuscripts and working drafts of poems and other writings, notes, diaries, sketchbooks, travel notebooks, galley and page proofs, business papers, drawings, photographs, scrapbooks, clippings, memorabilia, phonograph records, audio tapes, and one film. 





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   ##  ADDITIONAL LINKS 

 





    





  [Googlebooks: *The Enormous Room*](http://books.google.com/books?id=YELYf6lOMYoC&printsec=frontcover) (Penguin Books, 1999) 





    





  [Googlebooks: *Poems: Selections*](http://books.google.com/books?id=dJVm3SPzXXgC&printsec=frontcover) (Grove Press, 1959)