Harriet Beecher Stowe:  The Classic Text: Traditions and Interpretations


For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one's feelings, does the hard, cold, uninteresting course of daily reality move on! (Chapter 28)

e.e. cummings (1894-1962).
Tom. [New York: Arrow Editions, 1935].
Manufactured by the Rydal Press, Santa Fe, N.M. Frontispiece by Ben Shahn.
(SPL) PN 6120 .B3 C8
Special Collections, Golda Meir Library

Edward Estlin Cummings was a New England poet and painter, another son of a Boston minister. Famous for his satires, he became part of the experimental "New Art" and lived mainly in Paris. He dedicated this work to Marrianne Morehouse, who requested he write a ballet based on Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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