i Six Nonlectures [Paperback]

The author begins his nonlectures with the warning I havent the remotest intention of posing as a lecturer. Then, at intervals, he proceeds to deliver the following:

1. i & my parents
2. i & their son
3. i & selfdiscovery
4. i & you & is
5. i & now & him
6. i & am & santa claus

These talks contain selections from the poetry of Wordsworth, Donne, Shakespeare, Dante, and others, including e. e. cummings. Together, it forms a good introduction to the work of e. e. cummings.

Six marvelously unconventional lectures& An aesthetic self-portrait and a definition of Mr. Cummingss stance as a writer. Full of originality, high spirits, and aphoristic dicta, they express a credo of intense individualism.E. E. Cummings has given so much delight over the yearsby his poetry, his painting, and his personalitythat a deeply serious side of him, that of the dedicated man, has been overlooked&i: six nonlecturesshould help to bring him into sharper focus; [it is] the autobiography of a man who, through all the strange deviations of a strange age, has remained true to himselfone, moreover, so completely creative that even his lectures, which he calls nonlectures, offer new esthetic experiences& Seldom, indeed, has the subject of the creator and the creative faculty been so frankly and inspiringly present.What a book, what a poet, what a man, what a patriot, what a proud nation he is the first (and only?) citizen ofno, he didnt discover New Jersey, nuclear fission, or nucoa, just himself.In flashes of the nonlecturing, and steadily in the readings, the always surprising freshness, the durability, the high-spirited and deep-rooted resources of E. E. Cummings work are made apparent to us once more. For this sufficient reason,iis a blessing.The author begins his nonlectures with the warning I havent the remotest intention of posing as a lecturer. These talks contain selections from the poetry of Wordsworth, Donne, Shakespearlƒ7