E. E. Cummings: Selected Works

This Norton Critical Edition includes: 166 poems spanning the range of Cummingss career, selections of his prose and dramatic writing, twelve paintings and sketches, and three facsimiles of his draftsthe first ever annotated and cross-genre collection of his work aimed at student readers. Annotations, headnotes and a thorough introduction by Milton A. Cohen, along with an essay by Cohen chronicling the development of Cummingss idiosyncratic style. Four contemporary reviews and six critical essaysby Randall Jarrell, Edmund Wilson, Isabelle Alfandary and Michael Webster, among othersprefaced by an overview. Comparative studies of two poemsfeaturing five different responses to eachdesigned to promote classroom discussion. A chronology, a selected bibliography and an index of the poems.