E.E. Cummings' modernism and the classics

• Verfasst von: Rosenblitt, J. Alison [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: E.E. Cummings' modernism and the classics
• Titelzusatz: each imperishable stanza
• Verf.angabe: J. Alison Rosenblitt
• Ausgabe: First edition
• Verlagsort: Oxford ; New York, NY
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Jahr: 2016
• Umfang: xxii, 370 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Format: 22 cm
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Classical presences
• Fussnoten: Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke. ; Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke.
• ISBN: 978-0-19-876715-2
• ISBN: 0-19-876715-3
• Schlagwörter: (p)Cummings, Edward E.
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-AusgabeRosenblitt, J: E.E. Cummings' modernism and the classics. - First edition.. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016. - 1 online resource
• RVK-Notation: HU 3435
• K10plus-PPN: 867500891

Abstract

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 years after his death, this is how many readers and critics did see Cummings. He specialised in the study of classical literature as an undergraduate at Harvard, and his contemporaries saw him as a 'pagan' poet or a 'Juvenalian' satirist, with an Aristophanic sense of humour. In E.E. Cummings' Modernism and the Classics, Alison Rosenblitt aims to recover for the contemporary reader this lost understanding of Cummings as a classicizing poet