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Rhinoceros sketch and poem

Rhinoceros sketch and poem Ink on paper
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[ This description is from the project: MHS 225th Anniversary ]

Long before Edward Estlin Cummings was known as E. E. Cummings, one of 20th-century America's most popular poets, his words and sketches revealed a delightful childhood imagination. In this youthful work, completed about 1901, he was already experimenting with the unorthodox capitalization and punctuation that later became his trademark.