Fairy Tales

E-377. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Harcourt, Brace & World, New York. 1965. 36 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and image present to the front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Combining Thoreau’s controlled belligerence with the brash abandon of an uninhibited bohemian, E. E. Cummings, together with Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and William Carlos Williams, helped bring about the twentieth-century revolution in literary expression. Today Cummings is recognized as the author of some of the most sensuous lyric poems in the English language, as well as one of the most inventive American poets of his time. Formally fractured and yet gleefully alive and whole, at once cubistic and figurative, Cummings’s work expanded the boundaries of what language is and can do. In the words of Randall Jarrell, “No one else has ever made avant-garde, experimental poems so attractive to the general and special reader. ” EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .