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Edward Estlin's The Enormous Room

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Of course, every poet has their beginnings. Edward Estlin’s life began on the 14th of October in 1984 in Cambridge, Massachusetts to well-educated and liberal parents, and Rebecca Haswell Clark. The biggest influence that Cummings had as a child was from his mother, who always encouraged him to write poetry and she helped ingrain into him a love for literature too. Cummings went to Harvard Later after graduating from Harvard he volunteered to serve in France in the Norton-Harjes Ambulance group where he was later imprisoned for suspicion of treason because of the letters he wrote that were suspected of espionage and treason. During his jail time, he writes an autobiographical novel, The Enormous Room which was published in 1922. His father

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