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Overview
Overview
This Norton Critical Edition includes:
- 166 poems spanning the range of Cummings's career, selections of his prose and dramatic writing, twelve paintings and sketches, and three facsimiles of his drafts--the 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 Cummings's idiosyncratic style.
- Four contemporary reviews and six critical essays--by Randall Jarrell, Edmund Wilson, Isabelle Alfandary, and Michael Webster, among others--prefaced by an overview.
- Comparative studies of two poems--featuring five different responses to each--designed to promote classroom discussion.
- A chronology, a selected bibliography, and an index of the poems.
About the Series
Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format--annotated text, contexts, and criticism--helps students to better understand, analyze, and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Author: Cummings, E. E.
- ISBN: 9780393617115
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 8.40 x 0.80
- Number Of Pages: 384
- Publication Year: 2019