Poet
E. E. Cummings
Wrote about 2,900 poems that treated punctuation and capitalisation as things to be used rather than obeyed, and was imprisoned in France in 1917 on a censor's suspicion.
Edward Estlin Cummings, commonly known as e e cummings or E. E. Cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. During World War I, he worked as an ambulance driver and was imprisoned in an internment camp, which provided the basis for his novel The Enormous Room (1922). The following year he published his first collection of poetry, Tulips and Chimneys, which showed his early experiments with grammar and typography. He wrote four plays, the most successful of which were HIM (1927) and Santa Claus: A Morality (1946). He wrote EIMI (1933), a travelog of the Soviet Union, and delivered the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures in poetry, published as i-six nonlectures (1953). Fairy Tales (1965), a collection of short stories, was published posthumously.
- Born
- 1894-10-14, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USAA Sunday
- Died
- 1962-09-03, North Conway, New Hampshire, USAA Monday, aged 67
- At birth
- Sun in Libra, Moon in Aries
- Nationality
- United States
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Birth Chart
1894-10-14, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA · time unknown, noon chart
America/New_Yorkthe zone used then
The chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Libra | 21°20′ | Direct |
| Moon | Aries | 20°29′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Scorpio | 15°16′ | Direct |
| Venus | Libra | 9°33′ | Direct |
| Mars | Aries | 29°34′ | Retrograde |
| Jupiter | Cancer | 6°10′ | Direct |
| Saturn | Libra | 27°12′ | Direct |
| Uranus | Scorpio | 14°10′ | Direct |
| Neptune | Gemini | 15°37′ | Retrograde |
| Pluto | Gemini | 11°35′ | Retrograde |
Death Chart
1962-09-03, North Conway, New Hampshire, USA · time unknown, noon chart
America/New_Yorkthe zone used then
The chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Virgo | 10°39′ | Direct |
| Moon | Scorpio | 0°06′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Libra | 6°29′ | Direct |
| Venus | Libra | 26°48′ | Direct |
| Mars | Cancer | 7°43′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Pisces | 7°18′ | Retrograde |
| Saturn | Aquarius | 5°47′ | Retrograde |
| Uranus | Virgo | 1°31′ | Direct |
| Neptune | Scorpio | 11°11′ | Direct |
| Pluto | Virgo | 9°53′ | Direct |
Their Astrocartography
Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment E. E. Cummings was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.
Cast for noon, as the birth time is unknown, so the longitudes are approximate.
