CUMMINGS, E. E.

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i: Six Nonlectures. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his French translator on the front free endpaper, "Wishing Don Jon and Anne Marie the best of luck! Marion and E. E. C." The work was published in November, therefore this inscription was likely written ahead of the birth of the couple's son, Jerome, in December 1953.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 translation, and in 1980 he was awarded the Prix Halperine-Kaminsky for his Cummings translations.i: Six Nonlectures comprises Cummings's series of Charles Eliot Norton "nonlectures" on the subject of egocentrism, which he gave at his alma mater Harvard University from autumn 1952 to spring 1953.

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