Rebecca Cummings in 1892 by Charles Sydney Hopkinson (photographic credit i1.1)

The Cummings house at 104 Irving Street, Cambridge (photographic credit i1.2)

A portrait of Cummings at age eight, c. 1902, by Charles Sydney Hopkinson (photographic credit i1.3)

Cummings, age ten, with his father, Edward, and his younger sister Elizabeth, in 1904 (photographic credit i1.4)

The family at Joy Farm with, from right to left, a maid holding Rex the dog, Elizabeth on donkey, Estlin on horseback, Rebecca in white, and handyman Sandy Hardy leading the cows, c. 1904 (photographic credit i1.5)

Estlin with his beloved dog, Rex, and Elizabeth in the hammock (photographic credit i1.6)

Dean LeBaron Briggs, the Harvard professor who taught Cummings form (photographic credit i1.7)

James Sibley Watson, Cummings’s closest friend and patron (photographic credit i1.8)

Young women at a burlesque theater in 1916 (photographic credit i1.9)

Scofield Thayer, Cummings’s friend and patron and Elaine’s first husband (photographic credit i1.10)

Memorial Hall and Sanders Theatre at Harvard College (photographic credit i1.11)

Elizabeth Cummings, Estlin’s sister, in her teens, c. 1917 (photographic credit i1.12)

Cummings’s Harvard graduation photograph, 1915 (photographic credit i1.13)

A Cummings self-portrait, from the 1920s (photographic credit i1.14)

Cummings’s notes on the stationery of Collier & Son, where he was working: “Buffalo Bill is Dead” (photographic credit i1.15)

William Slater Brown, 1917 (photographic credit i2.1)

Cummings’s drawing of the view from one of his Paris windows in the 1920s (photographic credit i2.2)

Cummings’s drawing of Marie Louise Lallemand, his Paris friend from 1917 (photographic credit i2.3)

Paris artists in the 1920s. Ezra Pound stands in the middle row to the right. (photographic credit i2.4)

American ambulance drivers in France near the Western Front in 1927 (photographic credit i2.5)

Dépôt de Triage at La Ferté-Macé where Cummings and Brown were incarcerated (photographic credit i2.6)

Scofield and Elaine Thayer in the summer of 1916 (photographic credit i2.7)

Edward and Rebecca Cummings in the mid-1920s. Edward was killed in 1926. (photographic credit i2.8)

Elaine near her Washington Square apartment just after Nancy was born, 1920 (photographic credit i2.9)

Private Cummings after his return from France at Fort Devens, Massachusetts, 1918 (photographic credit i2.10)

Cummings in Paris, age twenty-seven, early 1920s (photographic credit i2.11)

Nancy Thayer Cummings, age five, in 1925 (photographic credit i2.12)

Morrie Werner … (photographic credit i3.1)

… and Anne Barton: two portraits by E. E. Cummings (photographic credit i3.2)

Rebecca Cummings at Joy Farm in old age (photographic credit i3.3)

Marion Morehouse, early 1930s (photographic credit i3.4)

Cummings photographed in his studio at Patchin Place by James Sibley Watson (photographic credit i3.5)

The glamorous Marion Morehouse shot by George Hoyningen-Huene, 1933 (photographic credit i3.6)

Cummings’s drawing of Marion Morehouse (photographic credit i3.7)

Nancy at Joy Farm, 1950 (photographic credit i3.8)

A Cummings self-portrait from 1947 (photographic credit i3.9)

Marianne Moore drawn by Hildegarde Watson (photographic credit i3.10)

Ezra Pound after his stay at St. Elizabeths (photographic credit i3.11)

Marion Morehouse in the 1930s (photographic credit i3.12)

E. E. Cummings before World War II (photographic credit i3.13)

Cummings with his own painting of Mount Chocorua in 1950 (photographic credit i3.14)

Nancy Thayer Cummings Roosevelt Andrews (photographic credit i3.15)

Hildegarde Watson and Estlin Cummings (photographic credit i3.16)

Cummings as he got older (photographic credit i3.17)

Patchin Place (photographic credit i3.18)

Cummings at work on the porch at Joy Farm (photographic credit i3.19)