Editing E. E. Cummings (section)

===Final years===
[[File:EECummingsGrave.jpg|thumb|right|Grave of E. E. Cummings]]

In 1952, his alma mater, [[Harvard University]], awarded Cummings an honorary seat as a guest professor. The [[Charles Eliot Norton Lectures]] he gave in 1952 and 1955 were later collected as ''i: six nonlectures''.<ref name=preface>{{cite book |first1=Norman |last1=Friedman |last2=Moore |first2=Harry T. |title=E. E. Cummings: The growth of a writer |date=1964a |publisher=Carbondale |location=Southern Illinois University Press |pages=v–viii |author1-mask=In Friedman, Norman (volume author) |url=https://archive.org/details/eecummingsgrowth0000frie/page/n11/ |chapter=Preface}}</ref>
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i thank You God for most this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes
|2=From "i thank You God for most this amazing" (1950){{efn|See: ''Selected works'' (1994)<ref name="Kennedy"/>{{rp|167}}}}}}
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Cummings spent the last decade of his life traveling, fulfilling speaking engagements, and spending time at his summer home, [[Joy Farm]], in [[Silver Lake, New Hampshire]]. He died of a stroke on September 3, 1962, at the age of 67 at Memorial Hospital in [[North Conway, New Hampshire]].<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.nytimes.com/1962/09/04/archives/ee-cummings-dies-of-stroke-poet-stood-for-stylistic-liberty-unusual.html|url-access=subscription|title=E.&nbsp;E. Cummings Dies of Stroke. Poet Stood for Stylistic Liberty|date=September 4, 1962|work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> Cummings was buried at [[Forest Hills Cemetery]] in Boston, Massachusetts. At the time of his death, Cummings was recognized as the "second most widely read poet in the United States, after [[Robert Frost]]".<ref name="aap"/>

Cummings's papers are held at the [[Houghton Library]] at [[Harvard University]] and the [[Harry Ransom Center]] at the [[University of Texas at Austin]].<ref name="utexas" />