Tulips and Chimneys
Author | E. E. Cummings |
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Publisher | Thomas Seltzer |
Publication date | 1923 |
Pages | 125 |
OCLC | 906167871 |
Tulips and Chimneys is the first collection of poetry by E. E. Cummings, published in 1923.
Description[]
This collection is the first dedicated exclusively to Cummings's poetry;[1] his work had been published previously alongside others' in .
Though most now know the title to be Tulips & Chimneys (with an ampersand), Cummings's original title request was disregarded by the publisher Thomas Seltzer, who changed the ampersand to the word "and."[1] Eventually, the book would come to be published together with the collection "&", under Cummings's original title.
Tulips and Chimneys features, among others, the poems "All in green went my love riding", "Thy fingers make early flowers of", "Buffalo Bill's",[2] and "Puella Mea". The original manuscript contained 152 poems of which only 86 appeared in this volume. 41 of the other poems later appeared in , and the balance (along with 34 new poems) were privately printed by the author in the simply named "&" in 1925.
References[]
- ^ a b E E Cummings, Poetry Foundation, retrieved 18 April 2014
- ^ "WebCite query result". webcitation.org. Archived from the original on October 23, 2009. Cite uses generic title (help)
- 1923 poetry books
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