Selected Poems of William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams

He cleared ground, he gave us tools.

Denise Levertov

Selected Poems of William Carlos Williams

Poetry by William Carlos Williams

With the 1985 publication of Charles Tomlinson’s edition of Williams’s Selected Poems, New Directions introduced a gathering larger and more comprehensive than the original 1963 edition. Opening with Professor Tomlinson’s superbly clear and helpful introduction, this selection reflects the most up-to-date Williams scholarship. In addition to including many more poems, Tomlinson has organized the whole in chronological order. “It isn’t what he [the poet] says that counts as a work of art,” Williams maintained, “it’s what he makes, with such intensity of purpose that it lives with an intrinsic movement of its own to verify its authenticity.”

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Paperback(published Sep, 01 1985)

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9780811209588
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Page Count
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ISBN
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Portrait of William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams

One of the greatest poets of the 20th Century, William Carlos Williams is “The cornerstone of New Directions”

He cleared ground, he gave us tools.

Denise Levertov

It is ever more apparent that Williams was this century’s major American poet.

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