This Norton Critical Edition includes:

• 166 poems spanning the range of Cummings's career, selections of his prose and dramatic writing, twelve paintings and sketches, and three facsimiles of his drafts--the first ever annotated and cross-genre collection of his work aimed at student readers.
• Annotations, headnotes, and a thorough introduction by Milton A. Cohen, along with an essay by Cohen chronicling the development of Cummings's idiosyncratic style.
• Four contemporary reviews and six critical essays--by Randall Jarrell, Edmund Wilson, Isabelle Alfandary, and Michael Webster, among others--prefaced by an overview.
• Comparative studies of two poems--featuring five different responses to each--designed to promote classroom discussion.
• A chronology, a selected bibliography, and an index of the poems.

About the Series
Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format--annotated text, contexts, and criticism--helps students to better understand, analyze, and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.