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22 April 2005: I'm out of gas today, so will just repeat a message I posted a while ago to HLAS, one of the two sites where I argue about who really wrote Shakespeare. Somebody had posted on the essay about "cummings" there, which irked me enough to once again assert that E. E. Cummings "considered his name to be upper-case Cummings, not Madison Avenue cummings. His last wife verified this, there is an extant letter in which he says this is so, and Norman Friedman, leading authority on Cummings says it is so. Other than that, I feel that he was too ardently pro-individualism and against collectivism to humble himself impicitly into the camp of the latter by lower-casing his own individual self. He did it in some of his poems when
appropriate--that is, when comparing himself to the Universe or the
like--but not when comparing himself to mostpeople, as he'd be doing
with a signature." I got in another snide put-down of The New York Times while I was at it, too.
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