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‘he danced his did’: an analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Richard D. Cureton
Richard D. Cureton
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Department of Linguistics, University of Illinois
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In the last twenty years, Cummings's line ‘he danced his did’; has been at the centre of almost every major discussion of the deviant language of literature. In the last two decades, hundreds of pages and scores of articles have been written which have attempted to assess and motivate its linguistic status and aesthetic success. Without question, ‘he danced his did’ has been more closely scrutinized and extensively analysed than any other single phrase in English literature.

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , September 1980, pp. 245 - 262
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1980

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