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Poet and painter e. e. cummings was the Charles Eliot Norton lecturer at Harvard University for 1952–1953.

• Nonlecture 1: i & my parents Nonlecture 2: i & their son Nonlecture 3: i & selfdiscovery Nonlecture 4: i & you & is Nonlecture 5: i & now & him Nonlecture 6: i & am & santa clause List of Readings

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.