compound words such as "puddle-wonderful". However, this obvious experimentation is often combined with strict formal structures and traditional subject matter that reveals a strong bias towards romanticism. There is also a satirical vein in his work which mocks the mores of popular American life, particularly society's belief in scientific rationalism. In 1926 Cummings became a freelance writer for Vanity Fair and established his customary work pattern, painting in the afternoons and writing at night. His personal life was less ordered, his first two marriages ending in divorce and enforced estrangement from his only child, Nancy. In 1926 he also suffered the loss of his beloved father in a car accident that left his mother badly injured. However, he found happiness in his third marriage to the photographer, Marion Morehouse. Later collections extended his typographical and grammatical experiments further though they have been criticised for a lack of development in terms of tone and subject matter. Cummings died from a brain haemorrhage in 1962. Cummings was honoured with many literary awards in his life though critical opinion was divided and remains so over his legacy: some dismiss his work as sentimental and politically nave, whilst others value him for his anarchist and mystical beliefs. What is indisputable is his status as one of the most widely read and popular American poets. His Archive recordings present Cummings in the intimacy of his Greenwich Village home. In his introduction, the producer of the programme provides an atmospheric snapshot of the poet's environment: "His