The plush Harcourt Brace volume of Cummings’s verse (Poems 1923-1954) carries a line of caps on its dustcover immediately above the Marion Morehouse closeup of her husband’s head: FIRST COMPLETE EDITION. These two volumes MacGibbon and Kee are now putting out in this country constitute the second complete edition, which so far as the poetry is concerned will probably remain the essential compilation of the master’s work. It adds 95 Poems (1958) and 73 Poems (1963) to what appeared in Poems 1923-1954, which ended with the last poem of XAIPE. The layout is an improvement: much more open, so that any poem, no matter how small, gets its own page.