E. Cummings Life And Accomplishments

E.E. Cummings was a twentieth-century American poet. His works were prime examples of the deadly sins; lust; greed, and pride. Even in the more modern times like today, twenty-first century, people are still willing to read his writings, because the population of today is driven by the sins that are shown though Cummings works.
October 14, 1894, in the city Cambridge, Massachusetts, Edward Estlin Cummings was brought into the world by his mother and father. His father, Edward Cummings, was a professor of Sociology and a professor of Political Science at Harvard. At home, his mother, Rebecca Haswell Clarke Cummings, would teach him to read and write at such a young age. Both of Cummings’s parents would dabble in the field of literature, and
Cummings experiences influenced his poems with lust, as he was a participant of a lengthy affair. Cummings had a friend at Harvard who was having an affair with Cummings, Elaine Thayer. Elaine Thayer’s husband soon found out about Cummings and his wife’s rendezvous, however, her husband did nothing about it. Cummings impregnated Elaine; her husband and Cummings tried to get her to abort the child but she would not. Elaine had the child, who was a beautiful daughter, Nancy, and Cummings wanted nothing to do with her as he was too busy with his work. Before 1924 he wanted no child, but afterward, he had a change of heart, and he married Elaine after she divorced her first husband and he became a true father. During his marriage to Elaine, he was deemed happy, as he had a loving wife and a beautiful daughter, but Elaine was not. Elaine divorced Cummings as she told him that she fell in love with another man, and Elaine left Cummings for her new lover. Even though he just lost his first wife it did not slow him down, as he quickly found himself a new wife. Anne Barton, a young flapper girl, whom Cummings married in 1929. Sadly Cummings marriage to Barton did not last long either, as they soon divorced. Soon came along a woman who he married due to the act of common law, Marion Morehouse. Cumming and Morehouse were the longest relationship he had, as Cumming
A year after The Enormous Room was published in 1923 Cummings published his first ever poetry book, Tulips and Chimneys. Forward ten years in 1933 Cummings escaped America to travel to Russia, so he could gain experience for another collection of work; his second biggest seller, Eimi. The older Cummings got, the more known he was becoming with his poems. Since he and his work became more known and loved Cummings started to receive awards. For his work, Cummings was awarded the Charles Eliot Norton Lectureship award; Dial Award in 1925. In 1933 and 1957, Cummings was given the Guggenheim Fellowship Award. Cummings also was awarded a special citation by the National Book Awards in 1955 for his poems. Lastly, Cummings was awarded the Bollinger Prize in poetry and Boston Art Festival Award in 1957. Cummings did gain all these awards and all his recognition is what he writes about and how he wrote. Cummings wanted to write in his own way, a new style. His style of abstraction and writing about real life struggles appealed to many of his readers. He would write with en masse in his mind “The opposite of the celebration of individuality, a principal subject of his lyricism.” (Dendinger 245). On top of all Cummings’s awards, he was labeled as one of the top three modern poets after his style of writing and what he wrote about. However, on