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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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your little voice
Over the wires came leaping
and i felt suddenly
dizzy
5With the jostling and shouting of merry flowers
wee skipping high-heeled flames
courtesied before my eyes
or twinkling over to my side
Looked up
Poets Book of Days
March 10
Thomas Gray departs for a Grand Tour of continental Europe with gothic novelist Horace Walpole, this day in 1739.
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Whose famous last words were "All right then, I'll say it: Dante makes me sick"?
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Spanish poet and playwright Lope de Vega.
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