TWA Poet: E.E. Cummings

1894 - 1962

It's the birthday of E.E. Cummings, born Edward Estlin Cummings in Cambridge, Massachusetts (1894). His father, also named Edward, was a Harvard professor-turned-Unitarian minister, a well-known public figure. Cummings said, "My father is the principal figure of my earliest remembered life. [...] His illimitable love was the axis of my being." He descri…