Edward Cummings

Edward Estlin Cummings (kwa kifupi E. E. Cummings; 14 Oktoba 1894 - 3 Septemba 1962) alikuwa mshairi na mwandishi mashuhuri kutoka Marekani. Kwa jumla aliandika na kuchapisha mashairi, riwaya na tamthilia mia tisa. Vile vile, Cummings alijulikana sana kama mchoraji wa picha kadhaa zilizovutia.

Edward Cummings.

Mashairi ya Cummings yaligusia sana masuala ya mapenzi na mazingira - alipenda sana kuandika juu ya majira ya kuchipua. Mashairi yake yalipata umaarufu kwa sababu hayakuakifishwa kama ilivyo kawaida.

Watalaamu wengi wanaamini kuwa Cummings alikuwa mmojawapo wa washairi waliojulikana sana kule Marekani katika karne ya 20. Mashairi aliyoandika Cummings, na ambayo yanajulikana sana, ni kama: "In Just Spring", "A Man Who Had Fallen Amongst Thieves", "The Cambridge Ladies" na "Buffalo Bill".

Vitabu

• The Enormous Room (1922)
• Tulips and Chimneys (1923)
• & (1925) (self-published)
• XLI Poems (1925)
• is 5 (1926)
• HIM (1927) (a play)
• ViVa (1931)
• CIOPW (1931) (art works)
• EIMI (1933) (Soviet travelogue)
• No Thanks (1935)
• Collected Poems (1938)
• 50 Poems (1940)
• 1 × 1 (1944)
• Santa Claus: A Morality (1946)
• XAIPE: Seventy-One Poems (1950)
• i—six nonlectures (1953) Harvard University Press
• Poems, 1923–1954 (1954)
• 95 Poems (1958)
• 73 Poems (1963) (posthumous)
• Fairy Tales (1965)
• Etcetera: The Unpublished Poems (1983)
• Complete Poems, 1904–1962, edited by George James Firmage, Liveright 2008

Baadhi ya tuzo alizopewa

• Dial Award (1925)^[1]
• Guggenheim Fellowship (1933)^[2]
• Shelley Memorial Award for Poetry (1945)^[3]
• Harriet Monroe Prize from Poetry magazine (1950)^[4]
• Fellowship of American Academy of Poets (1950)^[5]
• Guggenheim Fellowship (1951)^[2]
• Charles Eliot Norton Professorship at Harvard (1952–1953)^[5]
• Special citation from the National Book Award Committee for his Poems, 1923–1954 (1957)
• Bollingen Prize in Poetry (1958)^[5]
• Boston Arts Festival Award (1957)
• Two-year Ford Foundation grant of $15,000 (1959)^[5]