Edward Estlin Cummings

(1894-1962)

Edward Estlin Cummings
Image: The Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
Attended Harvard (A.B. 1915; A.M. 1916)
Taught at Harvard (Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer, 1952-1953)

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

  Academy of American Poets Biography
Harvard American National Biography Online
  The Poetry Foundation Biography

HARVARD COLLECTIONS

General Overview
Hollis HOLLIS Catalog Author Search: Edward Estlin Cummings
Hollis HOLLIS Catalog Subject Search: Edward Estlin Cummings
Rare Materials
Oasis Finding Aid: E. E. Cummings Letters to Frances Ames Randall, 1953-1962 
Includes E. E. Cummings' letters to Frances Ames Randall, with letters from Marjorie Gifford and Marion Morehouse to Randall, and also drawings by Cummings.
Oasis Finding Aid: Ezra Pound Letters to E. E. Cummings , 1926-1962 
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.
Oasis Finding Aid: Additional Papers, 1922-1955 and undated 
Includes autograph manuscript notes and poems, drawings, self-portrait sketches, photographs, ephemera, and clippings.
Oasis Finding Aid: Additional Papers, 1870-1969 
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.
Hollis HOLLIS Search: E. E. Cummings Finding Aids

ADDITIONAL LINKS

  Googlebooks: The Enormous Room (Penguin Books, 1999)
  Googlebooks: Poems: Selections (Grove Press, 1959)