Spring and All - Softcover

Williams, William Carlos

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1614278385 ISBN 13: 9781614278382

Publisher: Martino Fine Books, 2015

Synopsis

2015 Reprint of 1923 Edition. Full Facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. A practicing physician for more than 40 years, William Carlos Williams became an experimenter, innovator and revolutionary figure in American poetry. In reaction against the rigid, rhyming format of 19th-century poets, Williams, his friend Ezra Pound and other early-20th-century poets formed the core of what became known as the "Imagist" movement. Their poetry focused on verbal pictures and moments of revealed truth, rather than a structure of consecutive events or thoughts and was expressed in free verse rather than rhyme. The two most famous sections of Spring and All are poems I and XXII. The former, which opens "By the road to the contagious hospital," is commonly known by the title "Spring and All," and the latter is generally known as "The Red Wheelbarrow."

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So remarkable an influence upon the poetry of our time. --Robert Creeley"

It is ever more apparent that Williams was this century s major American poet. "

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Martino Fine Books
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1614278385
• ISBN 13: 9781614278382
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 100