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William Carlos Williams, Christopher MacGowan - Collected Poems, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

Collected Poems

Volume II 1939-1962

Av William Carlos Williams, Christopher MacGowan

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William Carlos Williams' Collected Poems Volume II reissued as a Carcanet Classic. After 1939, William Carlos Williams had embarked on the great original experiment that led to his magnificent, faulted master-work 'Paterson', and the work in the second volume of The Complete Poems provides a luminous record of his developing strategies, the emergence of a firm sense of 'the variable foot', and of the unaffected, secular and democratic voice of a poet who remains the great American modernist. It includes the collections he published alongside Paterson - The Wedge (1944), The Clouds (1948) and The Pink Church (1949); the two books in which he developed his distinctive three-step line, The Desert Music (1954) and Journey to Love (1955); and his final Pulitzer Prize volume, Pictures from Breughel (1962).As in Volume I, previously uncollected pieces are arranged chronologically and placed between the individual books. Williams's verse translations from four languages are also included.Williams remains challenging not because he is obscure but because he is so wonderfully direct. To reveal some of Williams's techniques of revision the editor prints some poems in earlier and later versions, and a few of the poems from the suppressed 1909 volume are included so that we can measure the extent of his growth. As in Volume I, there is a full editorial apparatus.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2019-06-27
  • Mått: 135 x 216 x 45 mm
  • Vikt: 746 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 576
  • Upplaga: 2
  • Förlag: Carcanet Press Ltd
  • ISBN: 9781784108441
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William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), a great contemporary of Pound, H.D., Wyndham Lewis and others, is one of the fathers of American free verse. Born in Rutherford, New Jersey, he received his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, where he met and befriended Ezra Pound. Returning to Rutherford, where he sustained his medical practice throughout his life, Williams began publishing in small magazines and embarked on a prolific career as a poet, novelist, essayist, and playwright.

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excerpt from 'Chicory and Daisies' by Stephen Burt inThe London Review of Books 7 March 2002[...] 'What Williams sees, he sees in a flash,' his friends Kenneth Burke remarked in 1922, calling him 'the master of the glimpse': Williams mastered not only the flash and the glimpse but their aural equivalents, the bit of dialogue or monologue which,arranged as verse, illuminates not a scene but a speech and its speaker. 'I've met a hell of a lot of all kinds of people that you'll ever get your eyes on,' Williams said reproachfully to Pound in 1938, 'and I've know them inside and out in ways you'll never know.'Medicine offered him access of a sort that few major poets have had to different registers of speech and kinds of life: he used what he learned, and what he overheard, in striking short stories and in remarkable talk-based poems. [...]

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