 First edition cover | |
| Author | E. E. Cummings |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Thomas Seltzer |
Publication date | 1923 |
| Pages | 125 |
| OCLC | 906167871 |
Tulips and Chimneys is the first collection of poetry by E. E. Cummings, published in 1923.
| First edition cover | |
| Author | E. E. Cummings |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Thomas Seltzer |
Publication date | 1923 |
| Pages | 125 |
| OCLC | 906167871 |
Tulips and Chimneys is the first collection of poetry by E. E. Cummings, published in 1923.
This collection is the first dedicated exclusively to poems by Cummings; [1] his work had been published previously alongside others' in Eight Harvard Poets .
Though most now know the title to be Tulips & Chimneys (with an ampersand), Cummings's original title request was disregarded by the publisher Thomas Seltzer, who changed the ampersand to the word "and." [1] Eventually, the book would come to be published together with the collection "&", under Cummings's original title.
Tulips and Chimneys features, among others, the poems "All in green went my love riding", "Thy fingers make early flowers of", "Buffalo Bill's", [2] and "Puella Mea". The original manuscript contained 152 poems of which only 86 appeared in this volume. Of the other poems, 41 later appeared in XLI Poems , and the balance (along with 34 new poems) were privately printed by the author in the simply named "&" in 1925.
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