The Doctor Stories - Softcover

Williams, William Carlos

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571147283 ISBN 13: 9780571147281

Publisher: London, Faber (1987)., 1987

Synopsis

Not only for students and doctors, this volume contains Williams's thirteen "doctor stories," several of his most famous poems on medical matters, and "The Practice" from The Autobiography.

These writings, together with Dr. Robert Coles's enthusiastic appraisal of teaching Williams and Dr. William Eric Williams's personal and touching filial account, "My Father, the Doctor," make up an intriguing and timely study of the poet as a physician of rare humanity and self-knowledge. As Coles suggests, Dr. Williams's writing can help many others take a knowing look at the medical profession.

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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.

Review

Stories written with the swift, concise, unsentimental exactitude of a great diagnostician who also happened to be a great poet. (The Book List, Philip Gourevitch)

About this edition

• Publisher: London, Faber (1987).
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0571147283
• ISBN 13: 9780571147281
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160