ABSTRACT
Early Life (E)dward (e)stlin cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, near Harvard University. His father taught sociology at the university before leaving it to become a Unitarian minister. The young cummings's playmates included the children of other Harvard professors. Cummings later obtained both bachelor's and master's degrees from Harvard, and his studies there gave him a solid grounding in English and classical literature as well as an understanding of language, all of which proved invaluable to him as a poet.
