[lit-ideas] Re: e e cummings was a show-off
- From: Robert Paul <robert.paul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 18:16:24 -0800
JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx wrote:
> My 7th grader just informed me that her English teacher (well, Language
> Arts, to be exact) informed the class that e e cummings was a show-off
> because he
> wouldn't use capital letters.
>
> comments anyone
Yes. The 7th grade teacher is mistaken. E. E. Cummings name should be
spelled with caps. See
http://www.gvsu.edu/english/cummings/caps.htm
Cummings didn't always use caps consistently in his poems but that he
did not use them ('Buffalo Bill's defunct… e.g.)is false.
Robert Paul
Reed College
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