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I--Six Nonlectures
The author begins his "nonlectures" with the warning "I haven't the remotest intention of posing as a lecturer." Then, at intervals, he proceeds to deliver the following:
1. i & my parents
2. i & their son
3. i & selfdiscovery
4. i & you & is
5. i & now & him
6. i & am & santa claus
These talks contain selections from the poetry of Wordsworth, Donne, Shakespeare, Dante, and others, including e. e. cummings. Together, it forms a good introduction to the work of e. e. cummings.
Book Details
- Publisher: Harvard University Press
- Publish Date: Jan 1st, 1991
- Pages: 128
- Language: English
- Edition: Revised - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.20in - 5.22in - 0.36in - 0.33lb
- EAN: 9780674440104
- Categories: • American - General• Poetry
About the Author
Cummings, E. E.: - Poet and painter e. e. cummings was the Charles Eliot Norton lecturer at Harvard University for 1952-1953.
Praise for this book
Six marvelously unconventional lectures... An aesthetic self-portrait and a definition of Mr. Cummings's 'stance' as a writer. Full of originality, high spirits, and aphoristic dicta, they express a credo of intense individualism.-- "The Atlantic"
E. E. Cummings has given so much delight over the years--by his poetry, his painting, and his personality--that a deeply serious side of him, that of the dedicated man, has been overlooked... i: six nonlectures should help to bring him into sharper focus; [it is] the autobiography of a man who, through all the strange deviations of a strange age, has remained true to himself--one, moreover, so completely creative that even his lectures, which he calls 'nonlectures, ' offer new esthetic experiences... Seldom, indeed, has the subject of the creator and the creative faculty been so frankly and inspiringly present.-- "Saturday Review"
What a book, what a poet, what a man, what a patriot, what a proud nation he is the first (and only?) citizen of--no, he didn't discover New Jersey, nuclear fission, or nucoa, just himself.--William Saroyan "The Nation"
In flashes of the nonlecturing, and steadily in the readings, the always surprising freshness, the durability, the high-spirited and deep-rooted resources of E. E. Cummings' work are made apparent to us once more. For this sufficient reason, i is a blessing.-- "New England Quarterly"