''Tulips and Chimneys'' is the first collection of poetry by
E. E. Cummings
Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962), commonly known as e e cummings or E. E. Cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. During World War I, he worked as an ambulance driver and was ...
, published in 1923.
Description
This collection is the first dedicated exclusively to Cummings's poetry;
[E E Cummings]
Poetry Foundation, retrieved 18 April 2014 his work had been published previously alongside others' in ''
Eight Harvard Poets
8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9.
Etymology
English ''eight'', from Old English '', æhta'', Proto-Germanic ''*ahto'' is a direct continuation of Proto-Indo-European '' *oḱtṓ(w)-'', and as such cognate wi ...
''.
Though most now know the title to be ''
Tulip
Tulips are spring-blooming perennial herbaceous bulbiferous geophytes in the ''Tulipa'' genus. Their flowers are usually large, showy, and brightly coloured, generally red, orange, pink, yellow, or white. They often have a different colour ...
s &
Chimney
A chimney is an architectural ventilation structure made of masonry, clay or metal that isolates hot toxic exhaust gases or smoke produced by a boiler, stove, furnace, incinerator, or fireplace from human living areas. Chimneys are typical ...
s'' (with an
ampersand
The ampersand, also known as the and sign, is the logogram , representing the grammatical conjunction, conjunction "and". It originated as a typographic ligature, ligature of the letters of the word (Latin for "and").
Etymology
Tradi ...
), Cummings's original title request was disregarded by the publisher
Thomas Seltzer, who changed the ampersand to the word "and."
[ 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",]
References
Links
Tulips and Chimneys
Cummmings.ee
1923 poetry books
American poetry collections
Poetry by E. E. Cummings
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