Selected Poems - Softcover

Tomlinson, C. (Ed.)

 
9780140421903: Selected Poems

Synopsis

seleted and introduced by Charles Tomlinson , 1st printing in the Penguin poets series 1976

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Review

The greatness of a poet is not to be measured by the scale but by the intensity and perfection of his works. Also by his vivacity. Williams is the author of the most vivid poems of modern American poetry. --Octavio Paz"

Williams's best reader on either side of the Atlantic has been a Briton, Charles Tomlinson... --Hugh Kenner"

About the Author

William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), author of Paterson and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Pictures from Brueghel, is widely considered one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. Also a short-story writer, novelist, essayist, and translator, he helped in a big way to establish modernism in America.

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