id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5961 E. E. Cummings - Wikipedia .html text/html 6039 659 75 E.) Cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962), often styled as e e cummings, as he is attributed in many of his published works,[1] was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. His father was a professor at Harvard University who later became nationally known as the minister of South Congregational Church (Unitarian) in Boston, Massachusetts.[2] His mother, who loved to spend time with her children, played games with Cummings and his sister, Elizabeth. Cummings wanted to be a poet from childhood and wrote poetry daily from age 8 to 22, exploring assorted forms. Following his autobiographical novel, The Enormous Room, Cummings' first published work was a collection of poems titled Tulips and Chimneys (1923). The American composer Eric Whitacre wrote a cycle of works for choir titled The City and the Sea, which consists of five poems by Cummings set to music. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5961.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5961.txt