William Carlos Williams

by Crane Doyle (Editor)

Overview

This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes.
This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136213151
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/05/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	484
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Charles Doyle

Table of Contents

Part 1 ‘Poems’; Chapter 1 Unsigned Review, Poems Composed in Odd Moments by One of Rutherford’s Bright Young Men, ‘Rutherford American’; Chapter 2 Ezra Pound, Letter to Williams; Part 2 ‘The Tempers’; Chapter 3 Ezra Pound, Review, ‘New Freewoman’; Part 3 ‘A1 Que Quiere!’; Chapter 4 Dorothy Dudley, ‘A Small Garden Induced to Grow in Unlikely Surroundings’, ‘Poetry’; Chapter 5 Conrad Aiken, Mr. Williams and His Caviar of Excessive Individualism, From ‘Scepticisms: Notes on Contemporary Poetry’; Part 4 ‘Kora in Hell: Improvisations’; Chapter 6 Ezra Pound, Letter; Chapter 7 Marianne Moore, Review, ‘Contact’; Chapter 8 Helen Birch-Bartlett, on Williams’ ‘Colossally Nice Simplicity’, ‘Poetry’; Chapter 9 W.C. Blum, ‘Since-1914 the Wind has Blown only from Jersey’, ‘Dial’; Part 5 ‘Sour Grapes’; Chapter 10 Kenneth Burke, Heaven’s First Law, ‘Dial’; Chapter 11 Hart Crane, From A Letter To Gorham Munson; Part 6 ‘Spring and All’; Chapter 12 Marion Strobel, Middle-Aged Adolescence, ‘Poetry’; Chapter 13 Paul Rosenfeld On Williams’ Objectivity, Perception Of Truth In Dissonance, ‘Fleeting Patterns’, From ‘Port Of New York’; Chapter 14 Alfred Kreymborg, From ‘Troubadour: An Autobiography’; Part 7 ‘In the American Grain’; Chapter 15 Henry Seidel Canby, Back to the Indian, ‘Saturday Review of Literature’; Chapter 16 Kenneth Burke, Subjective History, ‘New York Herald Tribune Books’; Chapter 17 D. H. Lawrence, American Heroes, ‘Nation’; Chapter 18 Hart Crane, From a Letter to Waldo Frank; Chapter 19 Gorham Munson, William Carlos Williams, A United States Poet, ‘Destinations: A Canvass of American Literature Since 1900’; Part 8 ‘A Voyage to Pagany’; Chapter 20 Louis Zukofsky On A Portrait Of America’s Beginning; Chapter 21 Morley Callaghan, America Rediscovered, ‘New York Herald Tribune Books’; Chapter 22 Unsigned Review, ‘Times Literary Supplement’; Chapter 23 Unsigned Review, Eccentric Narrative, ‘Saturday Review Of Literature’; Part 9 ‘The Knife of the Times and Other Stories’; Chapter 24 Unsigned Review Relating Williams’ Imagism To His Technique In The Short Story, ‘New York Herald Tribune Books ’; Chapter 25 Gertrude Diamant, Mr. Williams In His Clinic, ‘New York Post’; Part 10 ‘Contact’; Chapter 26 Austin Warren, Some Periodicals Of The American Intelligentsia, ‘New English Weekly’; Part 11 ‘Collected Poems 1921–1931’; Chapter 27 Wallace Stevens, Preface, Defines Williams’ Poetry as Both Anti-Poetic and Romantic; Chapter 28 Philip Blair Rice on Ground-Clearing in the Pioneer American Tradition, ‘Nation’; Chapter 29 Babette Deutsch, Williams, the Innocent Eye and the Thing-In-Itself, ‘New York Herald Tribune Books’; Chapter 30 Marianne Moore, Things Others Never Notice, ‘Poetry’; Chapter 31 William Carlos Williams on his own Sense of Resignation and Part icipation, Letter to Marianne Moore; Chapter 32 Basil Bunting, Carlos Williams’s Recent Poetry, ‘Westminster Magazine’; Chapter 33 Raymond Larsson, Review, ‘Commonweal’; Part 12 ‘White Mule’; Chapter 34 Alfred Kazin, Pure Speech, The Poet as Novelist, Review, ‘New York Times Book Review’; Chapter 35 N. L. Rothman, Review, ‘Saturday Review of Literature’; Chapter 36 Philip Rahv, Torrents of Spring, ‘Nation’; Chapter 37 Ford Madox Ford, The Fate of The Semiclassic: The Sad State of Publishing, ‘Forum’; Chapter 38 Ford Madox Ford, From A Letter to Stanley Unwin, Written From New York City; Part 13 ‘Life Along the Passaic River’; Chapter 39 Eda Lou Walton, X-Ray Realism, ‘Nation’; Chapter 40 N. L. Rothman, Brilliant Stabs at Truth, ‘Saturday Review’; Chapter 41 Fred R. Miller on Williams’ Localism, ‘New Republic’; Chapter 42 Robert Mcalmon Recollecting Williams in Paris in 1924, ‘Being Geniuses Together’; Part 14 ‘The Complete Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams 1906–1938’; Chapter 43 Philip Horton On Williams’ Inner Conflict Between Anti-Poeticism And Sentimentalism, ‘New Republic’; Chapter 44 Yvor Winters, Poetry Of Feeling, ‘Kenyon Review’; Chapter 45 Paul Rosenfeld On “The Least Naive Of Men … An Intellectual Poet’, ‘Saturday Review’; Chapter 46 R. P. Blackmur On Williams’ ‘Unexpanded Notation’, ‘Part isan Review’; Part 15 ‘In the Money’; Chapter 47 F. W. Dupee, W. C. Williams As Novelist, ‘New Republic’; Chapter 48 Paul Rosenfeld On ‘A Sort Of Spiritual Prolongation Of The Voyages Of Columbus’, ‘Nation’; Part 16 ‘The Wedge’; Chapter 49 Randall Jarrell On The America Of Poets, ‘Part isan Review’; Chapter 50 R. P. Blackmur On Williams And The Perception Of Organic Form; Part 17 ‘Patterson (Book One)’; Chapter 51 Isaac Rosenfeld, the Poetry and Wisdom of Paterson, ‘Nation’; Chapter 52 Randall Jarrell, Review of ‘The Best Thing William Carlos Williams has Ever Written’, ‘Part isan Review’; Chapter 53 Parker Tyler, from the Poet of Paterson Book One, ‘Briarcliff Quarterly’; Chapter 54 Edwin Honig, The City of Man, ‘Poetry’; Chapter 55 Robert Lowell, ‘a Sort of Anti-Cantos Rooted in America’, ‘Sewanee Review’; Part 18 ‘Patterson (Book Two)’; Chapter 56 Robert Lowell on Williams’ ‘Platonism’, Review, ‘Nation’; Chapter 57 Leslie Fiedler, Some Uses and Failures of Feeling, ‘Part isan Review; Chapter 58 Louis L. Martz, Anticipating Williams’ Conclusion That ‘the Virtue Is All in the Effort’, ‘Yale Review’; Part 19 ‘A Dream of Love’; Chapter 59 Maurice H. Irvine, Review, ‘New York Times Book Review’; Chapter 60 R. W. Flint, ‘A Fatal Incoherence At the Centre’, ‘Kenyon Review’; Part 20 ‘Selected Poems’; Chapter 61 Robert Fitzgerald Compares And Contrasts The Poems Of Williams And Willam Empson, ‘New Republic’; Chapter 62 Rolfe Humphries On Organic Form And The ‘Machine Made Of Words’, ‘Nation’; Chapter 63 Richard Wilbur On Williams’ ‘Essentially Mystic Or Magic Feeling’, ‘Sewanee Review’; Part 21 ‘Patterson (Book Three)’; Chapter 64 Vivian Mercier, Review, ‘Commonweal’; Chapter 65 Richard Ellmann, ‘The Most Pro-Poetic Of Poems’, ‘Yale Review’; Chapter 66 Monroe K. Spears, Imitative Form And ‘The Failure Of Language’, ‘Poetry’; Chapter 67 Hayden Carruth On The Verse Line ‘Hung Over, Like A Dali Watch’, ‘Nation’; Part 22 ‘The Collected Later Poems’; Chapter 68 John Frederick Nims, Review, ‘Chicago Sunday Tribune’; Chapter 69 Unsigned Review, An American Poet, ‘Times Literary Supplement’; Chapter 70 David Daiches on Williams’ American Poetic ‘Inscape’, ‘Yale Review’; Part 23 ‘Make Light of It: Collected Stories’; Chapter 71 Babette Deutsch on The Technique of Carelessness, ‘New York Herald Tribune Books’; Chapter 72 Robert Halsband, I Lived Among These People, ‘Saturday Review’; Chapter 73 Robert Gorham Davis, Stories, to Mr. WIlliams, are Swift Experiences, ‘New York Times Book Review’; Part 24 ‘Patterson (Book Four)’; Chapter 74 Richard Eberhart, A Vision Welded to the World, ‘New York Times Book Review’; Chapter 75 Dudley Fitts on ‘A More or Less Triumphant Conclusion’, ‘Saturday Review’; Chapter 76 Hayden Carruth on ‘Paterson’ As Lyrical Meditation, ‘Nation’; Chapter 77 M. L. Rosenthal, In the Roar of the Present, ‘New Republic’; Chapter 78 Randall Jarrell, ‘… “Paterson” Has Been Getting Rather Steadily Worse’, ‘Part isan Review’; Chapter 79 Unsigned Review, Poet of An Industrial Society, ‘Times Literary Supplement’; Part 25 ‘Autobiography’; Chapter 80 Harvey Breit on ‘An Unembellished, Honest Man of Letters’, ‘Atlantic Monthly’; Chapter 81 Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Review, ‘San Francisco Chronicle’; Chapter 82 Matthew Josephson, Williams as an Embodiment of the ‘Amateur Spirit’, ‘Saturday Review’; Chapter 83 Maxwell Geismar, A Talent of Maturity, ‘New Republic’; Chapter 84 Richard Ellmann, The Doctor in Search of Himself, ‘Kenyon Review’; Part 26 ‘The Collected Earlier Poems’; Chapter 85 I. L. Salomon, Candor&Science, ‘Saturday Review’; Chapter 86 G. S. Fraser, New Forms, New Forms!, ‘New Statesman’; Chapter 87 Joseph Bennett, The Lyre and the Sledgehammer, ‘Hudson Review’; Part 27 ‘The Build-Up’; Chapter 88 Winfield Townley Scott, ‘A Joy In People And A Passion For Life’, ‘New York Herald Tribune Books’; Chapter 89 Ernest Jones, ‘The Excitement Of The Facts Is All There Is’, ‘Nation’; Part 28 ‘The Desert Music’; Chapter 90 Kenneth Rexroth, A Poet Sums Up, ‘New York Times Book Review’; Chapter 91 John Ciardi, Thing is the form, ‘Nation’; Chapter 92 William Carlos Williams Explains his Theory of Measure in a Letter to Richard Eberhart; Chapter 93 Louis L. Martz, in the Pastoral Mode, ‘Yale Review’; Part 29 ‘Selected Essays’; Chapter 94 Nicholas Joost, The Development of an American Poet, ‘Commonweal’; Chapter 95 John R. Willingham, Part isan of the Arts, ‘Nation’; Chapter 96 Thomas H. Carter on Williams’ ‘Campaign Bulletins’, ‘Shenandoah’; Part 30 ‘Journey to Love’; Chapter 97 Wallace Fowlie, The World in his Hands, ‘New York Times Book Review’; Chapter 98 Richard Eberhart on Measure, The Speaking Voice and Direct Wisdom, ‘Saturday Review’; Chapter 99 Paul Goodman, Between the Flash and the Thunderstroke, ‘Poetry’; Part 31 ‘The Selected Letters’; Chapter 100 Winfield Townley Scott, ‘For the Local, the Regional, and for American speech’, ‘Saturday Review’; Chapter 101 Katherine Hoskins, Sweating Out A Birthright, ‘Nation’; Chapter 102 Reed Whittemore on Williams As An Experimental Poet and A Conventional Letter Writer, ‘Yale Review’; Chapter 103 Hugh Kenner, Columbus’s Log-Book, ‘Poetry’; Part 32 ‘I Wanted to Write a Poem’; Chapter 104 Winfield Townley Scott, Some Talk About Verse, ‘New York Times Book Review’; Chapter 105 Hugh Kenner, To Measure Is All We Know, ‘Poetry’; Part 33 ‘Patterson (Book Five)’; Chapter 106 M. L. Rosenthal On ‘The Transforming And Saving Power Of The Imagination’, ‘Nation’; Chapter 107 W. D. Snodgrass On Williams’ Late Change Towards ‘Conventional English Poetry’, ‘Hudson Review’; Chapter 108 Charles Olson On ‘Paterson’ As Process, ‘Evergreen Review’; Chapter 109 John Berryman On An ‘Ecstatic Addendum’ To ‘Paterson’, ‘American Scholar’; Part 34 ‘Yes, Mrs Williams’; Chapter 110 John C. Thirlwall, Portrait Of A Poet As His Mother’S Son, ‘New York Times Book Review’; Chapter 111 Thomas Parkinson, ‘I Was Listening With My Very Eyes’, ‘San Francisco Chronicle’; Part 35 ‘The Farmers’ Daughters’; Chapter 112 Irving Howe On Williams’ Use Of Organic Form And ‘Precise Miniatures Of Daily Life’, ‘New Republic’; Chapter 113 Arthur M. Kay On ‘a Matter-Of-Factness That Rivals Defoe’s’, ‘Arizona Quarterly’; Part 36 ‘Many Loves and Other Plays’; Chapter 114 Kenneth Rexroth, Master Of Those Who Know, ‘New Leader’; Chapter 115 Norman Holmes Pearson, Review, ‘Yale Review’; Chapter 116 Benjamin T. Spencer, Review, ‘Modern Drama’; Part 37 ‘Pictures from Brueghel’; Chapter 117 Stanley Kunitz, Frost, Williams, and Company, ‘Harper’s Magazine’; Chapter 118 Robert Creeley, The Fact of His Life, ‘Nation’; Chapter 119 Alan Stephens, Dr. Williams and Tradition, ‘Poetry’; Chapter 120 Keith Harrison, Review, ‘Spectator’; Chapter 121 Donald Davie, Two Ways Out of Whitman, ‘Review’; Chapter 122 Thom Gunn on ‘A Valid Alternative of Style and Attitude’, ‘Encounter’; Part 38 Valedictories; Chapter 123 Denise Levertov, William Carlos Williams, ‘Nation’; Chapter 124 Hayden Carruth, William Carlos Williams as One of Us, ‘New Republic; Chapter 125 Kenneth Burke, William Carlos Williams 1883–1963, ‘New York Review of Books’; Chapter 126 Peter Whigham, William Carlos Williams, ‘Agenda’; Chapter 127 Edward Dahlberg, Word-Sick and Place-Crazy, from ‘Alms for Oblivion’ (); Part 39 ‘The Collected Later Poems’; Chapter 128 Ames Dickey, First and last Things, ‘Poetry’; Chapter 129 Thomas Clark, Moving Images, ‘New Statesman’; Part 40 The William Carlos Williams Reader’; Chapter 130 Philip Toynbee, a Poet of his Time, ‘Observer’; Chapter 131 Unsigned Review, the Williams Grain, ‘Times Literary Supplement’; Chapter 132 Charles Tomlinson, Dr. Williams’ Practice, ‘Encounter’;