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1902Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories
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1904Sherlock Holmes
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1908Christabel Pankhurst
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1912Captain Scott's Diary
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1913G. B. Shaw's Pygmalion
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1914Suffragettes protest
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1917Wilfred Owen: WWI poetry
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1925Art in poetry
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1925Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
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1928Nottinghamshire dialect
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1929BBC English
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1939Wanted poster for Hitler
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1939World War II ultimatum letter
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1943Make Do and Mend
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1948Immigration from India
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1955Chinese restaurants
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1959Paul Robeson's Othello
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1960Sylvia Plath
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1964The Beatles in the USA
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1969Man lands on the moon
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1970Women's liberation magazine
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1973J.G. Ballard, Crash
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1976Punk fanzine
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1976The Sex Pistols
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1984J.G. Ballard, Empire of the Sun
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1991Angela Carter, Wise Children
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Intro
Typography and text layout became the playthings of poets during the 20th century. American poet EE Cummings (Edward Estlin Cummings) devised a technique in which the eye is deliberately drawn in different directions. It requires a different kind of reading to conventional poetry, and has been likened by some critics to cubist painting.
On this page
The right-hand page shows a poem called ‘Post Impressions XIV’ from Cummings’ collection entitled simply &. The reading direction is occasionally unpredictable. Words often run together or are broken apart by spaces or punctuation marks that give clues as to how to read the poem out loud.
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