Six Nonlectures By EE Cummings

The distinguished American poet and painter in celebrated Charles Eliot Norton "non Lectures" delivered at Harvard, presents "an aesthetic selfportrait of one whole half" (the writing half) "of this and no other indivisible ignoramus as is" In so doing, he vividly contrasts the world of his infancy and childhood and youth with our present "underworld"; he evolves "a strictly amateur anthology, or collection of poetry which...I dearly love"; and he quotes extensively from his least known writings including numerous essays two plays and a Soviet Russian diary- revealing himself anew as a forthright partisan of individuality