Cummings's experimental memoir of his wrongful WWI imprisonment by the French, told with exuberant, defiant wit.
Books mentioned in The Enormous Room (4)
As You Like It by William Shakespeare: “a curious and interesting feeling which I experienced upon first opening to 'As You Like It'”
Hamlet by William Shakespeare: “I tried Hamlet and Julius Caesar once or twice, and gave it up”
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare: “I tried Hamlet and Julius Caesar once or twice, and gave it up”
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan: “I have described my Pilgrim's Progress from the Slough of Despond”
Books that mention The Enormous Room (1)
Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose: “Gertrude Stein who had been much impressed by The Enormous Room said that Cummings did not copy, he was the natural heir of the New England tradition.”