Nonlecture 1: i & my parents Nonlecture 2: i & their son Nonlecture 3: i & selfdiscovery Nonlecture 4: i & you & is Nonlecture 5: i & now & him Nonlecture 6: i & am & santa clause List of Readings
Poet and painter e. e. cummings was the Charles Eliot Norton lecturer at Harvard University for 1952–1953.
Six marvelously unconventional lectures… An aesthetic self-portrait
and a definition of Mr. Cummings’s ‘stance’ as a writer. Full of
originality, high spirits, and aphoristic dicta, they express a
credo of intense individualism.
*The Atlantic*
E. E. Cummings has given so much delight over the years—by his
poetry, his painting, and his personality—that a deeply serious
side of him, that of the dedicated man, has been overlooked… i: six
nonlectures should help to bring him into sharper focus; [it is]
the autobiography of a man who, through all the strange deviations
of a strange age, has remained true to himself—one, moreover, so
completely creative that even his lectures, which he calls
‘nonlectures,’ offer new esthetic experiences… Seldom, indeed, has
the subject of the creator and the creative faculty been so frankly
and inspiringly present.
*Saturday Review*
In flashes of the nonlecturing, and steadily in the readings, the
always surprising freshness, the durability, the high-spirited and
deep-rooted resources of E. E. Cummings’ work are made apparent to
us once more. For this sufficient reason, i is a blessing.
*New England Quarterly*
What a book, what a poet, what a man, what a patriot, what a proud
nation he is the first (and only?) citizen of—no, he didn’t
discover New Jersey, nuclear fission, or nucoa, just himself.
*The Nation*
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