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Clown or Comic Poet?
Abel, Lionel | June 26, 1935 issue

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This article literally appraise the book "No Thanks," by E.E. Cummings. Sympathetic readers of modern poetry no longer since at the grammatical acrobatics of E.E. Cummings, at his telescoped word combinations, ritualistic use of slang, or capricious pagination. Today nobody will find these tricks either revolutionary or revolting; they are no longer expressive of a bewildering if delightful disorder but rather of a special and personal kind of order to which the instructed reader has learned to respond. But a poet does not produce most expertly, as some contend, when assured of the sympathy of his audience.

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NO Thanks (Book); CUMMINGS, E. E.; POETRY; LITERATURE; COLLOQUIAL language; CONDUCT of life
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