This volume chronicles the correspondence between William Carlos Williams, a Pullitzer Prize-winning American poet, and his publisher, James Laughlin, the founder of "New Directions".
The letters discuss modernism, art, publishing, and the writer/editor relationship between the two men."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Besides being a practicing physician, William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) was a poet, short-story writer, novelist, translator, playwright, and essayist whose contribution to the development of modern American poetry grew out of his commitment to recording the "local" experience of Rutherford, New Jersey, and its environs.
Over the years from 1933, when Harvard sophomore Laughlin met doctor-poet Williams and soon became his most dedicated publisher, the two men corresponded regularly until Williams's death in 1963. From the 149 well-annotated letters collected here one learns about the older man's attitudes toward his own writings and the works of others, his relationships with his publishers, his health and personal life. Williams writes expressively about T. S. Eliot's verse ("The only reason it doesn't smell is that it's synthetic"), Ezra Pound ("His letters are insults, the mewings of an 8th grade teacher," but "we must forgive him his stupidities"), Randall Jarrell ("I don't know anyone I'm more determined to destroy") and "a kid named Tennessee Williams" who has "that beautiful lyric excitement that was in Lorca." Laughlin's affecting fictional account of one of their last meetings concludes the book. Although Williams was not a great letter writer, this collection, assembled by a professor of English at the University of New Mexico, is important for specialists in 20th-century literature.
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