| Identifier | 5433921 |
| Created At | Tue May 23 2023 23:54:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) |
| Media Type | TAPE |
| Media Count | 1 |
| Sound Rating | A |
| Note | In 1952 cummings delivered the Norton lectures in poetry at Harvard, calling the series of six informal talks "nonlectures." These talks covered his development as a child, cummings's philosophy of being and writing, and his creed as a poet. |
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Performance
| e.e. cummings 1953-05-28 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA | |
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| Set 1 | HIM, the acrobat passage EIMI, Lenin's Tomb SANTA CLAUS, Scene Three |
| Set 2 | when serpents bargain for the right to squirm (XAIPE) dying is fine but Death (XAIPE) why must itself up every of a park (XAIPE) when god decided to invent (One Times One) nothing false and possible is love (One Times One) Hello is what a mirror says (One Times One) who were so dark o heart they might not speak (XAIPE) i say no world (50 Poems) life is more true than reason will deceive (One Times One) what if a much of a which of a wind (One Times One) one's not half two. Its two are halves of one: (One Times One) o by the day (One Times One) hate blows a bubble of despair into (50 poems) yes is a pleasant country: i thank you God for most this amazing (XAIPE) "sweet spring is your (One Times One) true lovers in each happening of their hearts (One Times One) when faces called flowers float out of the ground (XAIPE) |
| Set 3 | |
| Comment | In 1952 cummings delivered the Norton lectures in poetry at Harvard, calling the series of six informal talks "nonlectures." These talks covered his development as a child, cummings's philosophy of being and writing, and his creed as a poet. |