Selected Poems

Name: Selected Poems
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ISBN: 9780141184340

William Carlos Williams, William Carlos Williams

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English

Penguin
28 April 2005

Poetry; Poetry by individual poets

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

In his work as a physician, Williams had learnt the skill of objective observation which he applied to his poetry, examining, as he said, 'the particular to discover the universal'. Marked by a vernacular American speech and direct observation of the landscape and people of his native New Jersey, his poetry explores the 'raw merging of American pastoral and urban squalor. Emotionally restrained but rich in sensory experience, the poems were written according to the guiding concept- 'no ideas but in things' and those 'things', a red wheelbarrow, a group of trees, a river, convey the local and the particular with a vivid intensity.

By: William Carlos Williams, William Carlos Williams
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 131mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 202g
ISBN: 9780141184340
ISBN 10: 0141184345
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 28 April 2005
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Selected Poems

The greatness of a poet is not to be measured by the scale but by the intensity and perfection of his works. Also by his vivacity. Williams is the author of the most vivid poems of modern American poetry.--Octavio Paz Williams's best reader on either side of the Atlantic has been a Briton, Charles Tomlinson...--Hugh Kenner