Biography
Type: Poet, Painter, Essayist, Author, and Playwright
Born: October 14, 1894, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Died: September 3, 1962 (aged 67), Madison, Ne
Cummings was honoured with many literary awards in his life though critical opinion was divided and remains so over his legacy: some dismiss his work as sentimental and politically naïve, whilst others value him for his anarchist and mystical beliefs.
What is indisputable is his status as one of the most widely read and popular American poets.
Awards:
During his lifetime, Cummings received numerous awards in recognition of his work, including:
- Dial Award (1925)
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1933)
- Shelley Memorial Award for Poetry (1944)
- Harriet Monroe Prize from Poetry magazine (1950)
- Fellowship of American Academy of Poets (1950)
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1951)
- Charles Eliot Norton Professorship at Harvard (1952–1953)
- Special citation from the National Book Award Committee for his Poems, 1923–1954 (1957)
- Bollingen Prize in Poetry (1958)
- Boston Arts Festival Award (1957)
- Two-year Ford Foundation grant of $15,000 (1959)
- 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- Etcetera: The Unpublished Poems (1983)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
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