jencarbonneau's Library tagged poets → View Popular, Search in Google

Feb

2011

l(a - Poem by E. E. Cummings

famouspoetsandpoems.com/...14284

- Preview

eecummings poets

l(a by E. E. Cummings

l(a

le
af

fa
ll
s)

one
l
iness

(1958)

E. E. Cummings Biography

famouspoetsandpoems.com/...biography

- Preview

eecummings poets

born October 14, 1894 in the town of Cambridge Massachusetts.
His father, and most constant source of awe, Edward Cummings, was a professor of Sociology and Political Science at Harvard
19 more annotation(s)...
- left Harvard to become the ordained minister
- E.E. loved his childhood in Cambridge
- Attending Harvard, Cummings studied Greek and other languages
- Cummings volunteered for the Norton-Haries Ambulance Corps
- Cummings met another recruit, William Slater Brown.
- Brown was arrested for writing incriminating letters home, Cummings refused to separate from his friend and the two were sent to the La Ferte Mace concentration camp
- The Enormous Room is Cummings' autobiographical account of his time in the internment camp
- Cummings and Brown returned back to the states in January only to see Cummings drafted back to the war that summer
- Cummings and Elaine's marriage ended
- had no concept of how to treat his new wife correctly, so she found herself love in the arms of another man
- Cummings' father was abruptly killed and his mother was injured seriously in a car accident
- a locomotive cut the car in half
- Cummings also successfully married and divorced Anne Barton in the five ye
- 1932 is an important year for Cummings because it is the year that he met the woman that he would ultimately spent his remaining life with. Marion Morehouse was twelve years younger
- traveled the world
- Tunisia, Russia, Mexico, and France
- wrote many anti-war poems in protesting America's involvement in Europe and the Pacific
- collapsed from a cerebral hemorrhage
- death, three more volumes of his verse were published (p. 484). Counting these works, Cummings died leaving behind over twenty-five books of prose, poetry, charcoal and pencil drawings, plays and stories. He did all this in his sixty-eight years of life.

Langston Hughes- Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More

www.poets.org/83

- Preview

LangstonHughes poets

February 1, 1902
Missouri
9 more annotation(s)...
- parents divorced when he was a small child
- raised by his grandmother until he was thirteen
- travelled to Africa and Europe working as a seaman
- known for his insightful, colorful portrayals of black life in America from the twenties through the sixties
- known for his engagement with the world of jazz and the influence it had on his writing
- enormously important in shaping the artistic contributions of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s
- Hughes refused to differentiate between his personal experience and the common experience of black America
- wanted to tell the stories of his people in ways that reflected their actual culture, including both their suffering and their love of music, laughter, and language itself
- died of complications from prostate cancer in May 22, 1967, in New York

1 - 3 of 3

Showing 20▼ items per page

Selected Tags

poets

Related Tags

Top Contributors

Click in to find related links.

Groups interested in poets

Contemporary Poetry

Members (19)

bookmarks (76)
creative writing

Members (223)

bookmarks (180)
Creative Commons

Members (14)

bookmarks (41)

Related Lists on Diigo

Bradstreet_Taylor

pages about the early Americ...

Items: 8 | Visits: 40

Created by: professor gill
Contemporary Poets

This is a personal catalog o...

Items: 18 | Visits: 29

Created by: Dennis Richards
7th Grade Poetry Unit-Carter

information for poetry journ...

Items: 18 | Visits: 18

Created by: Mary Clark

Highlighter, Sticky notes, Tagging, Groups and Network: integrated suite dramatically boosting research productivity. Learn more »

Join Diigo