E.E. Cummings - E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) - my favorite poet E(dward) E(stlin) Cummings claimed to have composed a poem a day for fourteen years. Cummings developed a unique style of writing, full of experimentation with form, spelling, and syntax, and puncuation. Also a painter, he called himself 'an author of pictures, a draughtsman of words.'