The Embodiment of Knowledge

William Carlos Williams

ISBN 10: 0811206475 / ISBN 13: 9780811206471

Published by New Directions Publishing Corporation, US, 1974

About this Item

The miscellany of essays, notes, fragments, and jottings to which William Carlos Williams gave the title The Embodiment of Knowledge was found in manuscript after his death in the archive of his papers at the Beinecke Library at Yale University. Written in 1928-30, and dedicated to his sons, it was intended as a concrete demonstration of the organic nature of education, to show that knowledge is an ongoing process by which we create our selves from day to day. And to underscore the fact that so many of his own books were extended works of self-exploration, Dr. Williams wrote on the cover of his manuscript: "to be printed as it is, faults and all.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Embodiment of Knowledge
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation, US
• Publication Date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0811206475
• ISBN 13: 9780811206471
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 13.21W x 1.78H x 20.32D centimeters 13.21 centimeters width by 1.78 centimeters height by 20.32 centimeters depth
• Weight: 254 grams

About this title

Synopsis

The miscellany of essays, notes, fragments, and jottings to which William Carlos Williams gave the title The Embodiment of Knowledge was found in manuscript after his death in the archive of his papers at the Beinecke Library at Yale University. Written in 1928-30, and dedicated to his sons, it was intended as a concrete demonstration of the organic nature of education, to show that knowledge is an ongoing process by which we create our selves from day to day. And to underscore the fact that so many of his own books were extended works of self-exploration, Dr. Williams wrote on the cover of his manuscript: “to be printed as it is, faults and all.”

About the Author

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.