Poetry by William Carlos Williams (scary books to read .txt) π
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Poems is an anthology of William Carlos Williamsβ poetry collections, combining The Tempers (1913), Al Que Quiere! (1917), and Sour Grapes (1921). Williams is recognized as one of the foremost poets of American Modernism. In these collections a reader may perceive Williamsβ contact with and subsequent growth through and away from Imagism. The poetβs work asserts a decidedly American approach to Modernism and features highly localized diction and imagery.
William Carlos Williams was born in 1883, grew up in New Jersey, and was educated in Europe and the United States. He was friends with Hilda Doolittle βH. D.β and Ezra Pound, and through these friendships was introduced to Imagism. He eventually broke with the Imagists and invested himself instead in capturing the unique diction and linguistic intermingling of the United States, while remaining committed to the concreteness that characterizes Imagism. A practising doctor, Williams included many images of bodies, sickness, and medical care in his early poems. Williams later claimed there are βno ideas but in things,β a sentiment rooted in both his contact with Imagism and his firm sense of place.
Williams continued to read and respond to expatriate and English Modernism, culminating in his long work Paterson. In his later career Williams influenced postwar literary movements, most notably the Beat Generation. He died in 1963.
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Among the rain
and lights
I saw the figure 5
in gold
on a red
firetruck
moving
with weight and urgency
tense
unheeded
to gong clangs
siren howls
and wheels rumbling
through the dark city.
Poetry
was compiled from poems published between 1913 and 1921 by
William Carlos Williams.
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B. Timothy Keith and L. A. Vermeer,
and is based on transcriptions produced between 2010 and 2016 by
Meredith Bach, Diane Monico, Bryan Ness, and The Online Distributed Proofreading Team
for
Project Gutenberg
and on digital scans available at the
Internet Archive (Tempers) and the HathiTrust Digital Library (Al Que Quiere! and Sour Grapes).
The cover page is adapted from
In the Woods,
a painting completed in 1855 by
Asher Brown Durand.
The cover and title pages feature the
League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy
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The League of Moveable Type.
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