Author: William Carlos Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Throughout his life, Dr. Williams tirelessly defended and promoted the best in modern literature and art. He contributed widely to leading literary magazines, wrote prefaces and introductions, and lectured at many universities. This selection represents his finest work in criticism. Much of it concerns poetry and poets--T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, Karl Shapiro, E. E. Cummings, Ezra Pound, Carl Sandburg, Robert Lowell and many others. Williams also spoke out on painters and paintings as well as music and literature. There are essays on James Joyce, Shakespeare, Federico Garcia Lorca, the basis of faith in art, the American Revolution, H. L. Mencken's The American Language, Ford Madox Ford, American primitive painters, Antheil's music, and the work of Gertrude Stein.
Author: William Carlos Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811225739
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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The Autobiography is an unpretentious book; it reads much as Williams talked—spontaneously and often with a special kind of salty humor. But it is a very human story, glowing with warmth and sensitivity. It brings us close to a rare man and lets us share his affectionate concern for the people to whom he ministered, body and soul, through a long rich life as physician and writer. William Carlos Williams’s medical practice and his literary career formed an undivided life. For forty years he was a busy doctor in the town of Rutherford, New Jersey, and yet he was able to write more than thirty books. One of the finest chapters in the Autobiography tells how each of his two roles stimulated and supported the other.
Author: William Carlos Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811202398
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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William Carlos Williams's place among the great poets of our century is firmly established. This anthology of selections drawn from the whole range of his work--poetry, fiction, autobiography, drama and essays--shows conclusively that his prose was also remarkably original, versatile and powerful. It has been edited by M. L. Rosenthal, literary critic and Professor of English at New York University.
Author: William Carlos Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811205535
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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WCW, The Embodiment of Knowledge. Early essays.
Author: William Carlos Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811207072
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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WCW, I Wanted to Write a Poem. Williams discusses the procedure of poetry.
Author: William Carlos Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811209342
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Long unavailable, The Selected Letters of William Carlos Williams is now reissued as a New Directions Paperbook. Spanning fifty-four years, this collection record the creative growth of one of the twentieth century's most influential and versatile writers.
Author: William Carlos Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811202381
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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White Mule is the first of a trilogy of novels by William Carlos Williams about the immigrant Stecher family in New York at the turn of the 20th century. The "White Mule" of the title refers to Flossie, the angry, assertive, uncompromising baby, who can kick like White Mule whiskey.
Author: William Carlos Williams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Author: William Carlos Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811212830
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 70
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A dozen poems on love by a New Jersey obstetrician (1883-1963) who often wrote them on office prescription pads. In the title poem, first published when he was 72, he wrote: "What power has love but forgiveness? / In other words / by its intervention / what has been done / can be undone."
Author: William Carlos Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811202329
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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For this volume, originally published in cloth in 1961, William Carlos Williams collected, and revised, four full-length plays and the libretto of an opera on George Washington. As might be expected of the man who did most in our time to create a new and truly "American" idiom for poetry, Dr. Williams' writing for the stage challenges producers and actors to extend the range of modern drama.
