Collected Poems Volume II: 1939-1962 - Brossura

William Carlos Williams

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ISBN 10: 1784108448 ISBN 13: 9781784108441

Casa editrice: Carcanet Classics, 2019

Riassunto

William Carlos Williams' Collected Poems Volume II reissued as a Carcanet Classic. After 1939, William Carlos Williams had embarked on the great original experiment that led to his magnificent, faulted master-work 'Paterson', and the work in the second volume of The Complete Poems provides a luminous record of his developing strategies, the emergence of a firm sense of 'the variable foot', and of the unaffected, secular and democratic voice of a poet who remains the great American modernist. It includes the collections he published alongside Paterson - The Wedge (1944), The Clouds (1948) and The Pink Church (1949); the two books in which he developed his distinctive three-step line, The Desert Music (1954) and Journey to Love (1955); and his final Pulitzer Prize volume, Pictures from Breughel (1962). As in Volume I, previously uncollected pieces are arranged chronologically and placed between the individual books. Williams's verse translations from four languages are also included. Williams remains challenging not because he is obscure but because he is so wonderfully direct. To reveal some of Williams's techniques of revision the editor prints some poems in earlier and later versions, and a few of the poems from the suppressed 1909 volume are included so that we can measure the extent of his growth. As in Volume I, there is a full editorial apparatus.

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Recensione:

'Williams sees the real function of the imagination as breaking through the alienation of the near at hand and reviving its wonder.' --Hugh Fox

'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

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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.

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• Editore: Carcanet Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1784108448
• ISBN 13: 9781784108441
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 576
• Redattore: Christopher MacGowan