E. E. Cummings' Modernism and the Classics

This volume is a major, ground-breaking study of the modernist E. E. Cummings'' engagement with the classics. With his experimental form and syntax, his irreverence, and his rejection of the highbrow, there are probably few current readers who would name Cummings if asked to identify 20th-century Anglophone poets in the Classical tradition. But for most of his life, and even for ten or twenty year...