The Enormous Room (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

by E. E. Cummings, Bruce F. Murphy (Introduction)

Overview

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. In the autumn of 1917, zealous French police arrested two American ambulance corpsmen on suspicion of spying. One of the men was Edward Estlin Cummings, a young Harvard graduate and aspiring poet. The two were spent three months in the squalid detention center of La Ferté-Macé in Normandy. Cummings' fellow prisoners--the Machine-Fixer, the Zulu, the Young Skipper's Mate, the Wanderer, the Lobster--presented a human pageant reminiscent of Chaucer.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411467903
Publisher:	Union Square & Co.
Publication date:	03/13/2012
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	347 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) was a radical individualist who epitomized the modernist revolt against conventional norms, whether artistic or social. His bold experiments with syntax and form became one of the most recognizable of the twentieth century. He moved between Greenwich Village and Paris after World War I, and was a principal figure of the Lost Generation.