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Date of Birth
E.E. Cummings was born October 14, 1894 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. -
Writing Begins
This is the year that E.E. Cummings started writing his earliest poems. -
College
E.E. Cummings attended Harvard University and received his B.A. in 1915, and M.A. in 1916. -
Bachelors of Arts
Recieved his B.A. at Harvord University. -
Master of Arts
Recieved his M.A. at Harvard University. -
Volunteers
The year 1917, he left the U.S. to go to France as a volunteer ambulance driver for World War I. -
First Marriage
E.E. Cummings marries Elaine Thayer in Cambridge, but soon gets a divorce December 4 in Paris. -
Second Marriage
Marries Anne Barton -
Third Marriage
Meets Marion Morehouse and lives with her as his wife until death. -
Second Divorce
Divorces Anne Barton atfer being seperated for 2 years. -
If
If freckles were lovely, and day was night,
And measles were nice and a lie warn't a lie,
Life would be delight,--
But things couldn't go right
For in such a sad plight
I wouldn't be I. If earth was heaven and now was hence, And past was present, and false was true, There might be some sense But I'd be in suspense -
I carry your heart with me
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling) i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which -
Honors
He has received these honors: Academy of American Poets Fellowship, two Guggenheim Fellowships, the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship at Harvard, the Bollingen Prize in Poetry in 1958, and a Ford Foundation grant. -
Death Date
E.E. Cummings died September 3, 1962 from a stroke after chopping wood at Joy Farm.
