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However, below we introduce ten of Williams’s best-known and, we believe, best poems, which shine a light on his range, his themes, and his distinctive style. These poems range from the short imagist lyrics which are among his best-known works to longer, more ambitious projects. ‘ The Red Wheelbarrow ’.
The Complete Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, 1906-1938, New Directions, 1938. The Broken Span, New Directions, 1941. The Wedge, Cummington Press (Cummington, Massachusetts), 1944.
William Carlos Williams – poemas. “Williams torce o pescoço da estética tradicional; a arte não imita a natureza, imita seus procedimentos criativos.”. – Octavio Paz, em “William Carlos Williams: Poemas”. [seleção, tradução e estudo crítico de José Paulo Paes]. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 1987.
Williams' poetry often focuses on every day and the mundane, using simple language and imagery to capture the beauty of ordinary objects and moments. He is also known for his use of free verse, which allows him to experiment with structure and language in innovative ways.
- Early years
- Style
- Later years
- Significance
- Analysis
- Recording
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) famously combined the two careers of doctor and writer, along the way founding a specifically American version of Modernism. He was born in Rutherford, New Jersey, the son of a New York businessman of British extraction and a Puerto Rican mother with artistic talent. He grew up speaking Spanish and French as well...
A significant breakthrough in Williams' methods came with the montage of prose and poetry, grounded in colloquialisms, of Spring and All (1923). His quest for a truly native form of poetry made him a restless experimenter, particularly as regards metre and lineation. Abandoning traditional forms, Williams explored more flexible rhythms, including a...
Although Williams was admired in literary circles in the 1920s and 1930s he had to wait until 1937 for a reliable publisher when the fledgling New Directions made him one of their key authors. However, from then on his example became increasingly influential: writers as diverse as Robert Lowell and Allen Ginsberg turned to him for poetic inspiratio...
His Archive poems date from his major poetic flowering from the mid 1920s-mid 1940s, apart from 'Postlude' which is from 1913 and forms an interesting contrast to the poems of Williams' mature style. It's a piece that looks forward and backwards in its combination of the kind of poeticized diction that Williams was soon to abandon with a modern sen...
The recording also features one of the defining poems of the 20th century: the brevity of 'The Red Wheelbarrow' - just sixteen words in all - belies its iconic fame. However, it is the archetypal example of Williams' oft-quoted maxim \"no ideas but in things\", the extreme simplicity of the language and the precise placing of each visual element an...
His recording was made on 5 May 1945 at the Recording Laboratory, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. and is used by kind permission of the Libarary of Congress.
the wise trees. stand sleeping in the cold. All the complicated details.
Classic Poetry Series. William Carlos Williams - poems - Publication Date: 2004. Publisher: Poemhunter.com - The World's Poetry Archive. William Carlos Williams(17 September 1883 – 4 March 1963) an American poet closely associated with modernism and Imagism.
