Editors:Marie Rose Napierkowski and Mary RubyFrom:Poetry for Students
(Vol. 1. )
199812 pages
Biography, Critical ...
William Carlos Williams 1923 william Carlos William’s poem “The Red Wheelbarrow” was first published in the collection Spring and All in 1923. The poem is a good example of Williams’s statement, “No ideas, but in...
199823 pages
Critical essay, Biog...
Introduction WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS was a physician in Rutherford, New Jersey, for more than forty years, until forced to retire by the heart problems that finally killed him in 1963 at the age of seventy-nine. But...
199915 pages
Poem explanation, Cr...
William Carlos Williams 1921 “Queen-Ann’s-Lace” appeared in William Carlos Williams’s fourth published collection of poems, Sour Grapes, in 1921. With its keenly observed and passionate images of flowers and women,...
197424 pages
Biography, Critical ...
Introduction AMONG the poets of his own illustrious generation, William Carlos Williams was the man on the margin, the incorrigible maverick, the embattled messiah. During the years when T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound,...
200119 pages
Poem explanation, Cr...
William Carlos Williams 1916 Written at the end of 1916 and the beginning of 1917, “Overture to a Dance of Locomotives” remains one of Williams’ most intriguing poems, as it signifies a number of different things to...
Editors:Judith S. Baughman, Victor Bondi, Richard Layman, Tandy McConnell, and Vincent TompkinsFrom:American Decades
(Vol. 3: 1920-1929. )
2001
Topic overview
1230LCertain writers, painters, and musicians found new ways of perceiving reality that came to be defined as modernism—not a period of time but a commitment to experimentation in techniques, freedom in ideas, originality in...
Editors:Judith S. Baughman, Victor Bondi, Richard Layman, Tandy McConnell, and Vincent TompkinsFrom:American Decades
(Vol. 3: 1920-1929. )
2001
Topic overview
1140LMajor poems were written during the 1920s by poets who were publishing before the war: Robert Frost (1874-1963), Ezra Pound (1885-1972), Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935), Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), Vachel Lindsay...
Editors:Judith S. Baughman, Victor Bondi, Richard Layman, Tandy McConnell, and Vincent TompkinsFrom:American Decades
(Vol. 2: 1910-1919. )
2001
Topic overview
1400LMuch of the credit for the identification of the 1910s as a period of literary renaissance must be given to its poets, who revolutionized literature—and whose works had close ties to those of the visual artists of the...
Editors:Judith S. Baughman, Victor Bondi, Richard Layman, Tandy McConnell, and Vincent TompkinsFrom:American Decades
(Vol. 5: 1940-1949. )
2001
Biography
1430LPOET Ezra Pound's odyssey of ideas took him far from his birthplace in Idaho and changed American literature irrevocably. He had an uncanny eye for talent. During the 1910s and 1920s he was a champion of innovative new...
20082 pages
Topic overview
1710LConcretism, a term incorporating a broad panoply of Brazilian neovanguardist movements in the plastic arts and in literature launched in the 1950s and active through the 1970s. The term "concrete," drawing on "concrete...
Editors:Judith S. Baughman, Victor Bondi, Richard Layman, Tandy McConnell, and Vincent TompkinsFrom:American Decades
(Vol. 7: 1960-1969. )
2001
Awards list
770LFiction: Advise and Consent by Allen Drury Drama: Fiorellol, by George Abbott, Jerome Weidman, Sheldon Harnick, and Jerry Bock Poetry: Heart's Needle, by W. D. Snodgrass Music: Second String Quarter by Elliott...
199117 pages
Critical essay, Biog...
Introduction DENISE LEVERTOV HAS earned praise for her mastery of free verse and other nonmetrical forms, and for her urgent and powerful attempt through her poetry to conflate private and public languages in the...
Editors:Judith S. Baughman, Victor Bondi, Richard Layman, Tandy McConnell, and Vincent TompkinsFrom:American Decades
(Vol. 7: 1960-1969. )
2001
Topic overview
1550LDonald M. Allen signaled the beginning of a new era in American poetry early in the decade with the publication of his anthology The New American Poetry, 1945-1960 in 1960. In addition to publishing Beat poets from the...
199124 pages
Critical essay, Biog...
Introduction AFTER THE DEATH of Ezra Pound, so the story goes, a young journalist wished to find out who was the greatest living American poet. She made preliminary inquiries and contacted the leading candidates,...
199619 pages
Topic overview
CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Introduction ON THE ISLAND of Maui, more than two thousand miles from the nearest continent, the poet W. S. Merwin has planted on eighteen acres of land countless palms, many of which are either...
20044 pages
Excerpt, Autobiograp...
Autobiography By: Harriet Monroe Date: 1938 Source: Monroe, Harriet. A Poet's Life: Seventy Years in a Changing World. New York: Macmillan, 1938, 251–254. About the Author: Harriet Monroe (1860–1936) was born in...
20095 pages
Topic overview
Creativity is built into the human species, and it is designed to last throughout the entire life cycle (Andrea-sen, 2005; Cohen, 2000). Howard Gardiner (1993b) who provided information on multiple intelligences also...
200317 pages
Table, Excerpt, Crit...
SHARON BRYAN Introduction ALLEN GINSBERG’S POEM “Howl,” first published in 1956, is one of the most widely read and translated poems of the twentieth century. Many critics consider it a breakthrough in contemporary...
199113 pages
Biography, Critical ...
Introduction BY THE TIME Marianne Moore died in 1972, she had become a celebrity—America’s beloved poet in the tricorne hat and black cape who was probably better known for some of her interests and public appearances...
201415 pages
Author bibliography,...
John Steen LATE IN HIS life, in a statement for the documentary film Poetry in Motion, Ted Berrigan explained that writing poetry was a response to a divine calling: “The gods demand of the system that a certain number...
William Carlos Williams 1923 william Carlos William’s poem “The Red Wheelbarrow” was first published in the collection Spring and All in 1923. The poem is a good example of Williams’s statement, “No ideas, but in...
Introduction WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS was a physician in Rutherford, New Jersey, for more than forty years, until forced to retire by the heart problems that finally killed him in 1963 at the age of seventy-nine. But...
Fiction: Advise and Consent by Allen Drury Drama: Fiorellol, by George Abbott, Jerome Weidman, Sheldon Harnick, and Jerry Bock Poetry: Heart's Needle, by W. D. Snodgrass Music: Second String Quarter by Elliott...