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- 1 2 "E. E. Cummings, A Life", by Susan Cheever; page 64; published 2014 by Pantheon Books
- ↑ Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, page 164-165, by Catherine Tramonta, edited by Eric L. Haralson; published 2014 by Routledge
- ↑ Critical Analysis of 'i sing of olaf glad and big', in "Bloom's Major Poets: E. E. Cummings", p. 46-47; edited by Harold Bloom, published 2009 by Infobase Publishing
- 1 2 "So Many Selves" (chapter 3) (p 38-41), I Am: A Study of E. E. Cummings' Poems, by Gary Lane; published 1976 by University Press of Kansas
- ↑ GARY LANE ON THE REVERSAL OF CLASSICAL EXPECTATION, by Gary Lane, excerpted in "Bloom's Major Poets: E. E. Cummings", edited by Harold Bloom, published 2009 by Infobase Publishing; "We learn not 'the anger of Peleus' son Achilleus / and its destruction' (...), but the gentleness of Olaf (...) The form does not undercut heroism — we do not deal here with mock epic — it instead offers alternative heroic values. In the Iliad, Achilles is a hero of physical strength, sulking like a child when Briseis is taken from him, but at last achieving immortality by slaughtering Trojans. Olaf's strength is moral. Scarcely annoyed as his self-righteous and sadistic torturers attempt to strip him of human dignity, he achieves epic stature by refusing to kill."
- ↑ "e. e. c. (= élan et courage)", by M. L. Rosenthal; in Spring, the Journal of the E.E. Cummings Society; New Series, No. 3, Centennial Issue (October 1994), pp. 21-29 (9 pages)
- ↑ A Frieze for a Temple of Love, by Edward Field, published 1998 by David R. Godine, Publisher
- ↑ E. E. Cummings, a biography, by Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno; published 2004 by Sourcebooks
- ↑ Seen and Heard Festival Report: Wittener Tage fuer Neue Kammermusik, reviewed by John Warnaby, 2005; at MusicWeb International; retrieved September 2, 2018