The Cambridge Companion to William Carlos Williams

Christopher MacGowan is Professor of English at the College of William and Mary, Virginia. He is the author of Twentieth-Century American Poetry and William Carlos Williams's Early Poetry: The Visual Arts Background and editor of numerous books, including The Letters of Denise Levertov and William Carlos Williams and The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, Volumes I and II.

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• 1. Introduction Christopher MacGowan; 2. William Carlos Williams and the local Eric B. White; 3. Williams and his contemporaries Glen MacLeod; 4. Williams and the visual arts Peter Halter; 5. 'No confusion - only difficulties' in Williams's Spring and All Lisa M. Steinman; 6. Williams and politics Milton A. Cohen; 7. William Carlos Williams and the prose of pure experience Alec Marsh; 8. Paterson: an epic in four or five or six parts Erin E. Templeton; 9. Pictures from Brueghel: looking backward, pointing forward Cristina Giorcelli; 10. Williams in the American grain Ian Copestake; 11. Williams and women Kerry Driscoll; 12. Reading Carlos: baroque as straight ahead J. A. Marzan; 13. Williams, science, and the body T. Hugh Crawford; 14. Williams: the new poetries and legacy John Lowney.