He attended Harvard from 1911 to 1915, studying literature and writing daily. ... The "tulips" of the first volume are free-verse lyric poems that present a nostalgic glance at his childhood. ... In his late verse--XAIPE: Seventy-One Poems (1950), 95 Poems (1958), and the posthumously published 73 Poems (1963)--Cummings effects a softer, more elegiac note, recalling his early affinity for New England Transcendentalism and English Romanticism. ...

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