Cummings and Campion: Are Literary Works Definitely Over?.

Abstract

This article explores how literature is always on the move, and how authors from different times and cultures can collaborate in creating and completing literary works. The American writer E. E. Cummings was able to update a forgotten Renaissance poem through the English Thomas Campion in spite of the lapse of time between both authors. Cummings shared his love for writing with a career devoted to painting. Campion adapted his poems to music and was also a medicine doctor. The combination of these skills and the taste for discovering what other tendencies could offer them, encouraged Cummings and Campion to be radically opposed to other artists of their generation, creating a special language which only those who go beyond reality can understand.