Thoroughly enjoyed this book. Great descriptions and a sensitive plot and characters! I've not read this author before but will do so again in the future!

Thank you to NetGalley and W. W. Norton Company for this advanced e-copy of The Beauty of Living: E. E. Cummings in the Great War.

This was a really wonderfully edited book that explores poet E. E. Cummings's early life. Rosenblitt follows Cummings from his early years and education at Harvard, to his time during the Great War. In this biography you will find that it is created by letters, sketches, poem analyses, and journal entries. It is a wonderful origin story of such a great and famous poet.

It is always hard to review and rate a biography, especially one of such a profound writer and poet, but learning more about E. E. Cummings and his early years and how that shaped him as a writer was a really wonderful history lesson and learning experience.