CUMMINGS, E. E.

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Complete Poems. First complete edition of Cummings's poetry, number 8 of 150 copies. This set is from the collection of the poet's friend and French translator, David Jonathan Grossman, with the publisher's compliments slip loosely inserted and his shelf label on the covers.Grossman (1922-1990) first met Cummings whilst attending Peter Monro Jack's course at Columbia night school in 1941-42. After serving in the Second World War, Grossman attended Harvard in 1946 and began writing a thesis on Cummings, which he never finished. According to Grossman this was the start of their correspondence proper. In 1947 he moved to Paris but maintained the friendship; throughout the following years he wrote to or visited Cummings in the US. By 1960 he had published his first book of translations, and in 1980 he was awarded the Prix Halperine-Kaminsky for his Cummings work.

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