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From: William Carlos Williams and the American PoemFor criticism, the important question is: what criteria are we to apply in judging Williams 's poems? Many American poets, of the past two decades in particular, have signified their approval of his work either by...
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From: CEA Critic[(essay date winter and spring/summer 1999) In the following essay, Sheldon discusses the autobiographical elements of Williams's 1951 poem The Desert Music.] William Carlos Williams had never journeyed into Mexico...
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From: Paideuma[(essay date winter 2006) In the following essay, Nickels suggests that the resurgence of new materialist poetics in contemporary poetry can be traced back to the work of William Carlos Williams, who critiqued the...
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From: Journal of Modern Literature[(essay date fall 2005) In the following essay, Rizzo provides an in-depth analysis of the aesthetic and socio-political content of Williams's "The Red Wheelbarrow," focusing on issues of race and gender.] Although...
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From: Ecopoetry: A Critical Introduction[(essay date 2002) In the following essay, Long argues that a careful study of Williams's poetry and his theories concerning the impossibility of a direct connection between poetic language and unmediated reality should...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)William Carlos Williams is one of the leading figures of American modernist poetry whose critical recognition supports the impact his poems and fiction had throughout the modern and contemporary periods. Williams was a...
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From: Twentieth Century LiteratureEven before he finished the last part of Paterson as he had originally conceived it—with its four-part structure— Williams was already thinking of moving his poem into a fifth book. The evidence for such a rethinking of...
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From: Paideuma[(essay date spring, fall, and winter 2003) In the following essay, Hatlen discusses the influence of the poets H. D., Ezra Pound, and Wallace Stevens on Williams during the years 1913-1917, and Williams's ultimate...
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From: William Carlos Williams Review[(essay date spring 2006) In the following essay, Boone discusses The Great American Novel as a metafictional work and deems it an innovative and unique text that "anticipates postmodern fiction."] In the early 1920s...
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From: William Carlos Williams Review[(essay date spring 2006) In the following essay, Newmann analyzes Williams's Paterson as an enactment of many of the linguistic and epistemological themes presented in the 1987 work A Thousand Plateaus by French...
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From: The Merrill Studies in Paterson[The essay excerpted below was originally published in Perspective, Vol. 4 (1953).] The real subject here is that prose to which Williams calls attention by differentiating type. Paterson does contain obvious prose...
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From: Selected PoemsIt was The Tempers, in 1913, ... crowded Like peasants to a fair Clear skinned, wild from seclusion. The most interesting of Williams's early volumes, Al Que Quiere!, appeared in 1917, the same year as Prufrock and...
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From: Sewanee Review[(essay date winter 2011) In the following essay, Berry discusses Williams as a local poet, rooted in the concerns and stewardship of his community of Rutherford, New Jersey.] The Kind of Poet He Was. It is necessary,...
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From: Rebound: The American Poetry Book[(essay date 2004) In the following essay, Callan analyzes An Early Martyr as an unappreciated part of the Williams canon and argues that the later revisions of the work detract rather than add to its value.] When one...
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From: Southern Review[(essay date summer 2000) In the following essay, Kirby-Smith offers a detailed account of the attempts of Yvor Winters and Williams to formulate a coherent and positive theory of free verse.] In 1917, T. S. Eliot, who...