William Carlos Williams
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Spring and All (1923) is a book of poems by William Carlos Williams. Predominately known as a poet, Williams frequently pushed the limits of prose style throughout his works, often comprised of a seamless blend of both forms of writing. In Spring and All, the closest thing to a manifesto he wrote, Williams addresses the nature of his modern poetics which not only pursues a particularly American idiom, but attempts to capture the relationship between...
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The Great American Novel (1923) is an experimental novel by William Carlos Williams. Although he is predominately known as a poet, Williams frequently pushed the limits of prose style throughout his career. In the defining decade of Modernism, Williams sought to try his hand at the so-called "Great American Novel," a concept fueling impassioned debate in academic and artistic circles nationwide. Far from conventional, Williams' novel is a metafictional...
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The celebrated poet behind such classics as "The Red Wheelbarrow" and "This Is Just to Say" presents a collection of essays about North American history.
In the American Grain is, as William Carlos Williams said, "a study to try to find out for myself what the land of my more or less accidental birth might signify." Although Williams wrote poetry and prose-and was a doctor-he was not a historian. In this book, he applies a fresh, lyrical perspective...
4) Early Poems
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One of the most original and widely imitated poets of the twentieth century, William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) wrote verse firmly rooted in concrete experience and the particulars of everyday life. A practicing physician for more than 40 years, Williams worked in the idiom of modern American speech ― unlike his friend and mentor, Ezra Pound ― and his poems are redolent with a warmth and generosity of spirit. The Beat poets were particularly...
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William Carlos Williams, que ejerció durante toda su vida como médico de cabecera y pediatra -practicaba la medicina de día y escribía de noche, hasta caer rendido-, dedicó una serie de textos a su profesión que son considerados hoy una obra fundamental de la literatura anglosajona. Convertido en un emblema de la vanguardia literaria americana, son el sustrato íntimo de sus personajes y la insondable honestidad de su mirada los que, unidos...
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This is an unusual short classic by poet William Carlos Williams.
Written in 1923 and originally published in France, The Great American Novel examines the impossibility of writing such work in America.
Williams not only writes the novel with poetic satire and pathos but allows us into his writing process, as he strives to define a young America at the end of a World War and the beginning of the "Roaring '20s."