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Williams, William Carlos - 1883–1963, American poet and physician, b. Rutherford, N.J., educated in Geneva, Switzerland, Univ. of Pennsylvania (M.D., 1906), and Univ. of Leipzig, where he studied pediatrics. He is regarded as one of the most important and original American poets of the 20th cent. Williams began his medical practice in 1910 in Rutherford and was a physician for more than 40 years. His early poetry shows the influences of the various poetic trends of the time—from metaphorical imagism in Poems (1909) and The Tempers (1913) to free-verse expressionism in Al Que Quiere! (1917), Kora in Hell (1920), and Sour Grapes (1921). Williams observed American life closely, expressed anger at injustice, and recorded his impressions in a lucid, vital style. He developed a verse that is close to the idiom of speech, revealing a fidelity to ordinary things seen and heard. Later volumes of his poetry include Collected Poems (1934), Collected Later Poems (1950), Collected Earlier Poems (1951), Journey to Love (1955), Pictures from Brueghel, and Other Poems (1963; Pulitzer Prize), and a five-volume, impressionistic, philosophical poem, Paterson (1946–58), in which he uses the experience of life in an American city to voice his feelings on the duty of the poet. His essays include those in In the American Grain (1925), Selected Essays (1954), and Embodiment of Knowledge (1974). Among his other works are a collection of short stories, Make Light of It (1950); plays, including A Dream of Love (1948) and Many Loves (1950); and the novels A Voyage to Pagany (1928), a three-volume chronicle of an immigrant family in America, White Mule (1937), In the Money (1940), and The Build-Up (1952). His autobiography appeared in 1951 and his Selected Letters was published in 1957.

See biographies by R. Coles (1975) and P. Mariani (1981); studies by J. E. Breslin (1970), S. Tapscott (1984), S. Cushman (1985), and A. Fisher-Wirth (1989).

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William Carlos Williams » Read Now
by Vivienne Koch. 280 pgs.

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...WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS THE MAKERS OF MODERN LITERATURE SERIES...by David Daiches "William Carlos Williams" by Vivienne Koch WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Photograph by Charles...
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The Poetic World of William Carlos Williams » Read Now
by Alan Ostrom. 180 pgs.

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...THE POETIC WORLD OF William Carlos Williams WITH A PREFACE BY Harry...LONDON AND AMSTERDAM For William Carlos Williams and my wife THE IRRESISTIBLE...Wallace Stevens...
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Remembering William Carlos Williams » Read Now
by James Laughlin. 64 pgs.

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A lifetime of memories, a lifetime of writing, a lifetime of publishing (since 1936) - what to do, how to say it, what is the organic form? If you are James Laughlin, founder and publisher of New Directions, poet and friend of poets, you adapt the narrative metric of one friend (Kenneth Rexoth) to...
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A lifetime of memories, a lifetime of writing, a lifetime of publishing (since 1936) - what to do, how to say it, what is the organic form? If you are James Laughlin, founder and publisher of New Directions, poet and friend of poets, you adapt the narrative metric of one friend (Kenneth Rexoth) to tell the very personal stories of your other friends with verve, compassion, and a shrewd eye to the emotional truth of complex relationships. You call the whole memoir Byways, parts of which have begun to appear in literary journals. But one part stands alone in your affections. The section Remembering William Carlos Williams grows of its own accord and captures a relationship so perfectly that you decide to do it up as a little book and share it with a few friends who, like the late James Merrill, are enchanted. To reach a wider audience, Remembering William Carlos Williams is now available in this New Directions Paperbook Original edition.
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William Carlos Williams and the Diagnostics of Culture » Read Now
by Brian A. Bremen. 240 pgs.

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Bremen's study examines the development of William Carlos Williams's poetics, focusing in particular on Williams's ongoing fascination with the effects of poetry and prose, and his life-long friendship with Kenneth Burke. Using a framework based on Burke's and Williams's theoretical writings and...
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Bremen's study examines the development of William Carlos Williams's poetics, focusing in particular on Williams's ongoing fascination with the effects of poetry and prose, and his life-long friendship with Kenneth Burke. Using a framework based on Burke's and Williams's theoretical writings and correspondence, as well as on the work of contemporary cultural critics, Bremen looks closely at how Williams's poetic strategies are intimately tied to his medical practice, incorporating a form of methodological empiricism that extends his diagnoses beyond the individual to include both language and community. The book develops a series of rhetorical, cognitive, medical, and political analogues that clarify the poetic and cultural achievements Williams hoped to realize in his writing.
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Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems: Collected Poems, 1950-1962 » Read Now
by William Carlos Williams. 178 pgs.

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This collection makes available work of one of our greatest American poets in the last decade of his life. The first section, Pictures From Brueghel, contains previously uncollected short poems, while the second and third parts are the complete texts of The Desert Music and Journey To Love, originally published by Random House.
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The Collected Stories of William Carlos Williams » Read Now
by William Carlos Williams. 384 pgs.

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New Directions has long published poet William Carlos Williams' entire body of short fiction as The Farmers' Daughters (1961). This new edition of The Collected Stories of William Carlos Williams contains all fifty-two stories combining the early collections The Knife of the Times (1932), Life Along...
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New Directions has long published poet William Carlos Williams' entire body of short fiction as The Farmers' Daughters (1961). This new edition of The Collected Stories of William Carlos Williams contains all fifty-two stories combining the early collections The Knife of the Times (1932), Life Along the Possaic (1938) with the later collection Make Light of It (1950) and the great long story, "The Farmers' Daughters" (1956). When these stories first appeared, their vitality and immediacy shocked many readers, as did the blunt, idiosyncratic speech of Williams' immigrant and working-class characters. But the passage of time has silenced the detractors, and what shines in the best of these stories is the unflinching honesty and deep humanity of Williams' portraits, burnished by the seeming artlessness which only the greatest masters command.
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Make Light of It: Collected Stories » Read Now
by William Carlos Williams. 342 pgs.

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...OF MAKE LIGHT OF IT COLLECTED STORIES WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS RANDOM HOUSE NEW YORK FIRST PRINTING Copyright...1939, 1941, 1943, 1947, 1949, 1950, by William Carlos...
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Many Loves and Other Plays: The Collected Plays of William Carlos Williams » Read Now
by William Carlos Williams. 438 pgs.

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For this volume, William Carlos Williams collected, and revised, four full-length plays and the libretto of an opera on George Washington.
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In the American Grain » Read Now
by William Carlos Williams. 236 pgs.

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...the American Grain By William Carlos Williams in print The Autobiography...Selected Poems The William Carlos Williams Reader Yes, Mrs. Williams...GRAIN ESSAYS BY WILLIAM...
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The Embodiment of Knowledge » Read Now
by William Carlos Williams, Ron Loewinsohn. 228 pgs.

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Sixteen Modern American Authors: A Survey of Research and Criticism ("William Carlos Williams" begins on p. 573) » Read Now
by Jackson R. Bryer. 678 pgs.

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...Riddel 529 WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Linda W. Wagner 573...about the omission of William Carlos Williams. When Linda Wagners excellent...permission to use her essay, William...
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A Profile of Twentieth-Century American Poetry (Includes discussion of William Carlos Williams in multiple chapters) » Read Now
by Jack Myers, David Wojahn. 302 pgs.

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...Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams have taken precedence over that...Imaginations , by William Carlos Williams, reprinted by permission of...may have begun, as...
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Columbia Literary History of the United States ("William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens" begins on p. 972) » Read Now
by Emory Elliott. 1268 pgs.

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For the first time in four decades, there exists an authoritative and up-to-date survey of the literature of the United States, from prehistoric cave narratives to the radical movements of the sixties and the experimentation of the eighties. This comprehensive volume -- one of the century's most...
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For the first time in four decades, there exists an authoritative and up-to-date survey of the literature of the United States, from prehistoric cave narratives to the radical movements of the sixties and the experimentation of the eighties. This comprehensive volume -- one of the century's most important books in American studies -- extensively treats Hawthorne, Melville, Dickinson, Hemingway, and other long-cherished writers, while also giving considerable attention to recently discovered writers such as Kate Chopin and to literary movements and forms of writing not studied amply in the past. Informed by the most current critical and theoretical ideas, it sets forth a generation's interpretation of the rise of American civilization and culture. The Columbia Literary History of the United States contains essays by today's foremost scholars and critics, overseen by a board of distinguished editors headed by Emory Elliott of Princeton University. These contributors reexamine in contemporary terms traditional subjects such as the importance of Puritanism, Romanticism, and frontier humor in American life and writing, but they also fully explore themes and materials that have only begun to receive deserved attention in the last two decades. Among these are the role of women as writers, readers, and literary subjects and the impact of writers from minority groups, both inside and outside the literary establishment.
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American Literature and the Destruction of Knowledge: Innovative Writing in the Age of Epistemology (Chap. 13 "William Carlos Williams: Thinking a World without Thought") » Read Now
by Ronald E. Martin. 394 pgs.

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...231 13 William Carlos Williams: Thinking a World Without Thought...Press of Virginia. William Carlos Williams is quoted by permission of New...Collected Poems of William...
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Quotation and Modern American Poetry: "Imaginary Gardens with Real Toads" (Chap. Three "William Carlos Williams's Paterson") » Read Now
by Elizabeth Gregory. 256 pgs.

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The Metamorphic Tradition in Modern Poetry: Essays on the Work of Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, T. S. Eliot, Hart Crane, Randall Jarrell, and William Butler Yeats (Chap. Three "William Carlos Williams: A Testament of Perpetual Change") » Read Now
by M. Bernetta Quinn. 284 pgs.

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