Not all the brownstone basements in Greenwich Village are speakeasies. One that is not leads to the Painters & Sculptors Gallery where hung last week the first Eastern exhibition of the paintings of Edward Estlin Cummings, a curious gentleman who sometimes calls himself e e cummings, and writes poetry puzzling to the laity.
Poet & Painter Cummings was born in Cambridge, Mass. 37 years ago. At Harvard he was class poet in 1915, and took his M.A. degree the following year. He was one of the group of undergraduate esthetes whom the late great, cigar-smoking Amy Lowell used to gather round her,...
To continue reading:
or
Log-In
