E. E. Cummings

Complete Poems collects and presents all the poems published or designated for publication by E.E. Cummings in his lifetime. It spans his earliest creations, his vivacious linguistic acrobatics and his last valedictory sonnets. Cummings, together with Pound, Eliot and William Carlos Williams, helped bring about the twentieth-century revolution in literary expression. He is recognised as the author of some of the most sensuous lyric poems in the English language as well as one of the most inventive poets of his time. Formally fractured and yet gleefully alive and whole, at once cubistic and figurative, Cummings's work expanded the boundaries of what language is and can do.