EE ​​Cummings Edward Estlin Cummins was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on October 14, 1894 and died on September 3, 1962 in New Hampshire. He was 67 years old and was buried in Forest Hills Cemetery. He was married twice very briefly, his first wife was Elaine Orr, but their marriage began as a love affair in 1918 when she was also married to Scofirled Thayer, one of Cummings' friends from Harvard . During their marriage, Cummings wrote much erotic poetry. During the affair, they had a child named Nancy who would end up being Cummings' only child. His father was a teacher and minister, and his mother instilled in the youngster a love of language and play. Two of Cummings' inspirations for all of his work were Amy Lowell and Gertrude. Much of his inspiration also came from his three-month imprisonment because the French army accused him of espionage (the practice of spying or using spies). EE Cummings' work greatly influenced the Transcendentalist movement and changed the way poets approach language and particularly punctuation. EE Cummings was a poet who experimented with poetic form and language to create his own personal style. He also revised grammatical and linguistic rules to suit his own purposes, using words such as "if", "am" and "because" as nouns, or assigning his own private meaning to the words. This is what we call a transcendentalist poet, a poet who completely ignores the rules of poetry. Until his death, Cummings occupied an important place in 20th-century poetry. Cummings was such a great poet that Malcolm Cowley said: "Cummings wrote at least a dozen poems which seem to me incomparable." Three of them are among the great love poems of our time or of all time.” Cummings was not the only...... middle of paper ...... at Ard University and the University of Texas at Austin. He gave a lecture entitled "Charles Eliot Norton Lectures" in 1952 and 1955, which was later collected as "six unlectures". During the last decade of his life, he spent time at his summer home and traveled, performing speaking engagements. He died on September 3, 1962 at the age of 62 in North Conway, New Hampshire, of a stroke at Memorial Hospital. He was cremated and his remains were interred in Lot 748 Althaeas Path, Section 6, Forest Hills Cemetery. His third wife died in 1969 and was buried in an adjoining plot. I now understand why. The work of EE Cummings greatly influenced the Transcendentalist movement and changed the way poets approach language and particularly punctuation. Many people may not think his work was great at the time, but decades later he became one of the best poets of the 20th century..