By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University)
E. E. Cummings – or, following the American poet’s own idiosyncratic way of styling himself, ‘e. e. cummings’ – was one of the greatest and most original voices in twentieth-century American poetry. He also wrote some of the most intense and remarkable erotic love poems in the English language. Here are ten of E. E. Cummings’ very best poems.