cummings, e. e. with intro by Horace Gregory, — A Selection of Poems.

NY, Harcourt, Brace & World, (1965). G. "The two modes of his poetry, lyricism and satire, he joined in a unified vision of the modern world, in this he was unique.". A New England aristocrat, he was in the great tradition of the dissidence of dissent: dissent from all that was easy, liberal, and vulgar: he was his own man.a non-political radical reactionary who in a dehumanized world went back to the roots of our humanity. He was first and last a deeply religious poet." Allen Tate Cummings was born in Cambridge, MA, in 1894, and died in New Hampshire, in September, 1962. A major poet, he was also a painter, playwright, and author of the famous World War I novel The Enormous Room. Binding rubbed and tanned, owner name ft endpaper, back cover creased on edge.