Items related to I: Six Nonlectures
The author begins his "nonlectures" with the warning "I haven't the remotest intention of posing as a lecturer" Then, at intervals, he proceeds to deliver the following: 1. i & my parents 2. i & their son 3. i & selfdiscovery 4. i & you & is 5. i & now & him 6. i & am & santa claus These talks contain selections from the poetry of Wordsworth, Donne, Shakespeare, Dante, and others, including e.e. cummings. Together, it forms a good introduction to the work of e.e. cummings.
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Review:
Six marvelously unconventional lectures...An aesthetic self-portrait and a definition of Mr. Cummings's 'stance' as a writer. Full of originality, high spirits, and aphoristic dicta, they express a credo of intense individualism.
In flashes of the nonlecturing, and steadily in the readings, the always surprising freshness, the durability, the high-spirited and deep-rooted resources of E. E. Cummings' work are made apparent to us once more. For this sufficient reason, "i" is a blessing.
E. E. Cummings has given so much delight over the years--by his poetry, his painting, and his personality--that a deeply serious side of him, that of the dedicated man, has been overlooked...'"i: Six Nonlectures,"' should help to bring him into sharper focus; [it is] the autobiography of a man who, through all the strange deviations of a strange age, has remained true to himself--one, moreover, so completely creative that even his lectures, which he calls 'nonlectures, ' offer new esthetic experiences...Seldom, indeed, has the subject of the creator and the creative faculty been so frankly and inspiringly present.
What a book, what a poet, what a man, what a patriot, what a proud nation he is the first (and only?) citizen of--no, he didn't discover New Jersey, nuclear fission, or nucoa, just himself.--William Saroyan "The Nation "
About the Author:
In flashes of the nonlecturing, and steadily in the readings, the always surprising freshness, the durability, the high-spirited and deep-rooted resources of E. E. Cummings' work are made apparent to us once more. For this sufficient reason, "i" is a blessing.
E. E. Cummings has given so much delight over the years--by his poetry, his painting, and his personality--that a deeply serious side of him, that of the dedicated man, has been overlooked...'"i: Six Nonlectures,"' should help to bring him into sharper focus; [it is] the autobiography of a man who, through all the strange deviations of a strange age, has remained true to himself--one, moreover, so completely creative that even his lectures, which he calls 'nonlectures, ' offer new esthetic experiences...Seldom, indeed, has the subject of the creator and the creative faculty been so frankly and inspiringly present.
What a book, what a poet, what a man, what a patriot, what a proud nation he is the first (and only?) citizen of--no, he didn't discover New Jersey, nuclear fission, or nucoa, just himself.--William Saroyan "The Nation "
Poet and Painter e.e. cummings was the Charles Eliot Norton lecturer at Harvard Univeristy for 1952-1953.
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- PublisherHarvard University Press
- Publication date1953
- ISBN 10 0674440005
- ISBN 13 9780674440005
- BindingHardcover
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