Collected Poems Volume I
1909-1939
2nd Edition
Will be published approx. on 27. September 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
608 pages
978-1-78410-671-3 (ISBN)
Description
William Carlos Williams' Collected Poems Volume I reissued as a Carcanet Classic.
Described by Thom Gunn as `an ideal edition', this first volume of William Carlos Williams' Collected Poems is a vivid account of his formation as a poet, his time in Europe, and his interactions with the major players of Modernism (he never quite appreciated that he was one of them). The poems are printed in the order of original publication, starting with The Tempers (1913) and ending with Poems 1936-1939. Williams remains one of the most popular American poets of all time, Whitman's heir but with a voice wholly unlike Whitman's: provincial, particular, never quite settled. His material is the stuff of daily life, though he takes big risks of theme: `the urgent insurgent now' that he lives and celebrates becomes history; it can generate energy even from the past.
Described by Thom Gunn as `an ideal edition', this first volume of William Carlos Williams' Collected Poems is a vivid account of his formation as a poet, his time in Europe, and his interactions with the major players of Modernism (he never quite appreciated that he was one of them). The poems are printed in the order of original publication, starting with The Tempers (1913) and ending with Poems 1936-1939. Williams remains one of the most popular American poets of all time, Whitman's heir but with a voice wholly unlike Whitman's: provincial, particular, never quite settled. His material is the stuff of daily life, though he takes big risks of theme: `the urgent insurgent now' that he lives and celebrates becomes history; it can generate energy even from the past.
Reviews / Votes
`Today it would be hard to find a reader of poetry who would not acknowledge Williams as one of the major American modernists.' - Adam Kirsch; 'Williams sees the real function of the imagination as breaking through the alienation of the near at hand and reviving its wonder.' - Hugh FoxMore details
Edition
2nd New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Carcanet Press Ltd
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 136 mm
Thickness: 48 mm
Weight
728 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78410-671-3 (9781784106713)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Previous edition
Book
11/2000
Carcanet Press Ltd
€50.95
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Persons
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 began writing poetry while still a student at Horace Mann High School, at which time he made the decision to become both a writer and a doctor. 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.