I was then studying engineering, and in my heavily masculine campus, poetry was seen as namby-pamby stuff; those who read poetry were viewed with suspicion, if not derision. My knowledge of this form of literature begins, you might say, with that school curriculum favourite(Half a league, half a league, / Half a league onward, / All in the valley of Death / Rode the six hundred, etc. ) Niven had taken the title of the book from a cummings poem and quoted part of it:Even to a philistine like me, that sounded pretty cool, and I sought out more poetry by cummings. 100 Selected Poems (the selection done by cummings himself) is a boundless treasure trove and a sure-shot uplifter of spirits. From the notes on the book jacket, I came to know that he had been a famous poet.

Source: Mint July 02, 2016 18:11 UTC