[1] E.E. Cummings, Introduction to The Enormous Room, (New York: Modern Library, 1934), vii.

[2] Cummings, The Enormous Room (New York: NYRB Classics, 2022), 47.

[3] Cummings, The Enormous Room, 250.

[4] Susan Cheever: E.E. Cummings: A Life (New York: Pantheon, 2014), 35.

[5] Cummings, Complete Poems 1913–1962 (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1972), 60.

[6] Cummings, The Enormous Room, 1.

[7] Cummings, 15.

[8] Cummings, 57.

[9] Cummings, 76.

[10] Cummings, 58.

[11] John Dos Passos, “Off the Shoals,” in Critical Essays on E.E. Cummings, ed. Guy Rotella (Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1984), 34.

[12] Cummings, 51.

[13] Cummings, 82.

[14] Cummings, 85.

[15] Delbanco, Introduction to The Enormous Room (New York: NYRB Classics, 2022), xviii.

[16] Cummings, 90.

[17] Cummings, Complete Poems, 290.

[18] R.P. Blackmur, “Notes on E.E. Cummings’ Language,” in Critical Essays, 124.

[19] Helen Vendler, Review of Complete Poems, in Critical Essays, 101.

[20] Cummings, Complete Poems, 70.

[21] Cummings, Introduction to The Enormous Room, viii.

[22] Cummings, The Enormous Room (2022), 184.

[23] Cummings, Complete Poems, 592.

[24] Cummings, i: six nonlectures (New York: Atheneum, 1962), 111.

[25] Cummings, i: six nonlectures, 24.

[26] Cummings, Complete Poems, 609.