This author claimed that "thou didst love the pen / While others wrote in steel" in a poem addressed to Jean Froissart called "Thou in Whose Sword-Great Story Shine the Deeds". Another of his poems is about a group who would "rather black the boots of / success than enquire whose soul dangles from his / watch-chain", and who is "forever making poems in the lap of death". He wrote a poem whose speaker notes "i do not know what it is about you that (*) closes and opens"; that poem ends with the line "nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands". Another of his poems rhymes its title with the parenthetical "with up so floating many bells down". For 10 points, name this author of "Humanity i love you" and "anyone li
This author claimed that "thou didst love the pen / While others wrote in steel" in a poem addressed to Jean Froissart called "Thou in Whose Sword-Great Story Shine the Deeds". Another of his poems is about a group who would "rather black the boots of / success than enquire whose soul dangles from his / watch-chain", and who is "forever making poems in the lap of death". He wrote a poem whose speaker notes "i do not know what it is about you that (*) closes and opens"; that poem ends with the line "nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands". Another of his poems rhymes its title with the parenthetical "with up so floating many bells down". For 10 points, name this author of "Humanity i love you" and "anyone lived in a pretty how town", an American poet known for his unusual orthography and typography.
This author claimed that "thou didst love the pen / While others wrote in steel" in a poem addressed to Jean Froissart called "Thou in Whose Sword-Great Story
e e cummings [or Edward Estlin Cummings]