William Carlos Williams and Transcendentalism: Fitting the Crab in a Box

by Ron Callan

Overview

This book examines the achievements of William Carlos Williams in the context of the transcendentalism of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thorgau and Walt Whitman. The author develops a narrative of sensibilities to enrich the understanding of transcendentalism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349121182
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/1992
Edition description:	1st ed. 1992
Pages:	210
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Emerson: facing the ignoble world; Thoreau: a purely sensuous heaven; Whitman: a new distribution of roles; marriage out of despair: the Stetcher trilogy; caught half of the earth in ecstasy: the poems; the art of domestic husbandry: Paterson.