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Edward Estlin Cummings

Season’s greetings in the Ransom Center’s collections

November 30, 2018 - Tracy Bonfitto

“Dear Miss Crawford,” writes D. H. Lawrence in a letter dated December 23, 1909, “I hope my verses won’t offend you. I know they are poor enough. But do you like my little card?” The “little card,” sent to Grace Crawford and today part of the D. H. Lawrence collection at the Ransom Center, is a small, handmade Christmas greeting card, its front and back covers decorated with watercolors by Lawrence. On the front, four bees surround a stock of delicately drooping bluebells; one bee has attached itself to a flower. On the back, Lawrence has finely rendered a mayfly, with elegantly arranged wings and legs. [Read more…] about Season’s greetings in the Ransom Center’s collections

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: Christmas, D. H. Lawrence, Edward Estlin Cummings, holidays, letters

Fellows Find: The goat-footed paganism of E. E. Cummings

June 8, 2016 - Jennifer Rosenblitt

E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings, undated, doodling of fauns and satyrs. From ‘Sketches’ by E.E. Cummings. Copyright (©) by the Trustees for the E.E. Cummings Trust.
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It’s spring: the “mud-luscious”’ and “puddle-wonderful” season whistled in by E. E. Cummings’s most famous poetic creature. He is the little, lame, queer, old man selling balloons: “the goat-footed balloonMan.” [Read more…] about Fellows Find: The goat-footed paganism of E. E. Cummings

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching Tagged With: A. C. Swinburne, Classicism, classics, E. E. cummings, Edward Estlin Cummings, Fellows Find, Fellowships, Greek mythology, juvenilia, Oscar Wilde, Pan, poetry, Poets

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