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  • I admire the wit of E. E. Cummings, and so I got his signature.

    God’s Guest List Debbie Macomber 2010

  • I made them recite snippets of E. E. Cummings and they read surprisingly well.

    Meet the new voice, (almost the) same as the old voice shunn 2010

  • I sometimes wonder whether scholars centuries from now will attribute the disappearance of capitalization from written English to the influence of E. E. Cummings, instead of to the limitations on PDA and cellphone keypads and the fast pace of IM and similar electronic communcations.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Most Important Review Russell Roberts Will Ever Get 2009

  • Note: The poem is from 50 Poems, E. E. Cummings, 1940, and uses imagery from the Spanish Civil War.

    May Day Mourning, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Poet E. E. Cummings 1894-1962 is remembered by contemporary readers more for his novel use of capitalization and punctuation than his verses.

    E. E. Cummings by Catherine Reef ricklibrarian 2008

  • And that the sonnet did not exhaust itself in England but has found new life in the work of E. E. Cummings, among others.

    an American ear ... Fred 2007

  • It had no sale of course but I think the novel may be something extraordinary—Tom Boyd and E. E. Cummings + Biggs combined.

    A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994

  • It had no sale of course but I think the novel may be something extraordinary—Tom Boyd and E. E. Cummings + Biggs combined.

    A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994

  • Incidentally, E. E. Cummings' "A Foreword to Krazy" is one of many Cummings links at yesterday's wood s lot; I must point out that the poet did not spell his name with lower-case initials, and did not want others to do so

    languagehat.com: AMHERST. 2004

  • In spring 1949 she was elected to the self-selecting, blue-ribbon National Institute of Arts and Letters, along with artist Gertrude Lathrop, E. E. Cummings, Christopher Isherwood, and several others.

    Portrait of An Artist Laurie Lisle 1986

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