i-six nonlectures (Charles Eliot Norton Lectures): 16 (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) - Softcover

Cummings, E. E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674440102 ISBN 13: 9780674440104

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1991

Synopsis

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:

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 "

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.--Saturday Review

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.--New England Quarterly

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.--The Atlantic

About the Author:

Poet and Painter e.e. cummings was the Charles Eliot Norton lecturer at Harvard Univeristy for 1952-1953.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0674440102
• ISBN 13: 9780674440104
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128