Nice piece on e.e.cummings

'Literary critics have found any number of ways to divide writers into opposing teams. Isaiah Berlin distinguished between "hedgehogs," who know one big thing (Tolstoy, Dante) and "foxes," who know many different things (Dostoevsky, Shakespeare). Philip Rahv taught a generation of readers to look at American literature as a combat between aesthetic "palefaces" like Henry James and vigorous "redskins" like Walt Whitman. But when it comes to the poetry of the 20th century, perhaps the most useful distinction is between parents and children. Some poets present themselves as fathers or mothers--thoughtful, serious, eager to claim authority and accept responsibility. Others are determined to remain sons or daughters--playful, provocative, in love with games and experiments, defiant of convention in language as in life.' Read on.