The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1909-1939 (Vol. 1)

by William Carlos Williams, A. Walton Litz (Editor), Christopher MacGowan

Overview

Considered by many to be the most characteristically American of our twentieth-century poets, William Carlos Williams "wanted to write a poem / that you would understand / ,,,But you got to try hard—."

So that readers could more fully understand the extent of Williams' radical simplicity, all of his published poetry, excluding Paterson, was reissued in two definite volumes, of which this is the first.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780811224598
Publisher:	New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication date:	10/29/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	604
File size:	714 KB

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.