E. E. Cummings: Selected Works: A Norton Critical Edition

By E E Cummings and E.E. Cummings

This Norton Critical Edition includes:

166 poems spanning the range of Cummings's career, selections of his prose and dramatic writing, twelve paintings and sketches, and three facsimiles of his drafts--the first ever annotated and cross-genre collection of his work aimed at student readers. Annotations, headnotes, and a thorough introduction by Milton A. Cohen, along with an essay by Cohen chronicling the development of Cummings's idiosyncratic style. Four contemporary reviews and six critical essays--by Randall Jarrell, Edmund Wilson, Isabelle Alfandary, and Michael Webster, among others--prefaced by an overview. Comparative studies of two poems--featuring five different responses to each--designed to promote classroom discussion. A chronology, a selected bibliography, and an index of the poems.

About the Series
Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format--annotated text, contexts, and criticism--helps students to better understand, analyze, and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393617114
• ISBN13: 9780393617115
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 8.4"