E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings

E. E. Cummings, American poet, was born in Cambridge, Mass., and graduated from Harvard in 1915. His poetry, noted for its eccentricities of typography, language, and punctuation, usually seeks to convey a joyful, living

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Your little voice / Over the wires came leaping

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Question:

Whose famous last words were "All right then, I'll say it: Dante makes me sick"?

Answer

Spanish poet and playwright Lope de Vega.

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