Complete Poems
poetry by Cummings
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- In E.E. Cummings
…verse, assembled in his two-volume Complete Poems (1968). Cummings’s linguistic experiments ranged from newly invented compound words to inverted syntax. He varied text alignments, spaced lines irregularly, and used nontraditional capitalization to emphasize particular words and phrases. In many instances his distinct typography mimicked the energy or tone of his…
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