Selected poems (Penguin poets) - Softcover

Williams, William Carlos

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Synopsis

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 pieces, 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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William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) was one of the leading modernist poets of his generation.

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Williams's best reader on either side of the Atlantic has been a Briton, Charles Tomlinson...--Hugh Kenner

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