All in green went my love riding Resources

Websites

All About Cummings

The Academy of American Poets is a go-to place for information about any poet, including Cummings. Check out their page on him here.

Capitalization Controversy

Check out this blow-by-blow account of how Cummings's name should appear (capitalized, thank you very much) in a website that includes evidence and letters!

Cummings and Computers = BFF's

Just for fun, check out this "interview" of E.E. Cummings, in which html uses Cummings's poetry to create a "conversation."

Cummings's Descendants: Visual Poetics

Cummings's meticulous spacing of words on the page often looked as much like art as it did a poem. Remember those 8-syllable lines broken into two 4-syllable lines? He was participating in (and some say founding) a school of visual poetics. Check out other examples here.

Video

Cummings Reads

Unfortunately, no tape of Cummings reading "All in green" exists, but here's a recording of "anyone lived in a pretty how town," a later poem.

Lawrence. Fishburne. Recites. Cummings.

We're so excited that we're jumping. Here's Fishburne on a late show… and he's reciting poetry!

Audio

Joan Baez Sings Cummings

The queen of sixties folk music loved Cummings so much that she put his poem to verse.

And if Baez is too hippie for you….

Check out the William and Mary's college choir singing the same song.

Love and Poetry! Poetry and Love!

Who doesn't love to learn about love? Check out this audio recording for some all-time romantic hits (poetry-wise, of course), featuring E.E. Cummings himself.

Bjork Digs Cummings (Really)

The Icelandic music genius has been the coolest of the cool (or the weirdest of the weird) for the last decade or so. And she has plenty of things to say about Cummings:

Images

Cummings was a Cool Cat

Check out his 1950s swagger (complete, of course, with an artist's cigarette).

The Pensive Poet

As an elder statesman of the poetic world, it's probably fitting that he looks so thoughtful here.

Diana, Goddess of the Hunt

Huntresses and deer and arrows? That sounds an awful lot like the makings of our poem. Here's a Roman statue depicting the goddess herself.

Articles & Interviews

The "Nonlecture"

Sick of academic lectures? So was Cummings. That's why he delivered six "nonlectures" at his alma mater, Harvard, in 1953.

Poets on Poets

Billy Collins (former Poet Laureate) writes about William Carlos Williams discussing Cummings. It's a poetry party.

Books

Cummings 101

Want to know all the dirt on Cummings's three wives, his imprisonment as a conscientious resistor, or how he came up with the idea to never capitalize anything? Shmoopsters, look no further. This biography is for you.

The Inside Scoop on Analysis

The cranky grandfather of English literary criticism, Harold Bloom, wrote a whole book on Cummings. You can check it out here.

Movies & TV

Cummings, the Grandfather of Star Wars

Before there was Star Wars, there was… E.E. Cummings? Yup, you got it. Long before Luke Skywalker was a glimmer in George Lucas's eye, the director made a video short of Cummings's "anyone lived in a pretty how town."

Love Poems, Hollywood-Style

In Her Shoes features three major leading ladies (Toni Collette, Shirley Maclaine, and Cameron Diaz) and some poetry from Cummings. What's not to love?