Selected Poems by William Carlos Williams (English) Paperback Book

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A collection of poems that explore the raw merging of American pastoral and urban squalor.

FORMATPaperback LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Publisher Description

In his work as a physician, Williams had learnt the skill of objective observation which he applied to his poetry, examining, as he said, 'the particular to discover the universal'. Marked by a vernacular American speech and direct observation of the landscape and people of his native New Jersey, his poetry explores the 'raw merging of American pastoral and urban squalor. Emotionally restrained but rich in sensory experience, the poems were written according to the guiding concept- 'no ideas but in things' and those 'things', a red wheelbarrow, a group of trees, a river, convey the local and the particular with a vivid intensity.

Author Biography

William Carlos Williams was born in Rutherford, New Jersey, in 1883. He lived there most of his life, practising medicine as a paediatrician. While studying at the Pennsylvania Medical School he became a friend of Ezra Pound and H. Doolittle, and was deeply influenced by Imagism. The limitations of Imagism, however, soon led him to launch his own campaign to 'create somehow by intense, individual effort, a new - and American - poetic language.'

Review

The greatness of a poet is not to be measured by the scale but by the intensity and perfection of his works. Also by his vivacity. Williams is the author of the most vivid poems of modern American poetry.--Octavio PazWilliams's best reader on either side of the Atlantic has been a Briton, Charles Tomlinson...--Hugh Kenner

Details ISBN0141184345 Pages 272 Publisher Penguin Books Ltd Year 2000 ISBN-10 0141184345 ISBN-13 9780141184340 Format Paperback Imprint Penguin Classics Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Charles Tomlinson DEWEY 811.52 Birth 1883 Author Charles Tomlinson Media Book Death 1963 Short Title SEL POEMS Language English Residence US Series Penguin Modern Classics Publication Date 2000-09-28 UK Release Date 2000-09-28 Audience General NZ Release Date 2005-04-27 AU Release Date 2005-04-27 We've got this

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