William Carlos Williams

Standard Name: Williams, William Carlos

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Denise Levertov
Here DL discusses in detail those poets she had found most vital for her own work: William Carlos Williams , Robert Duncan , and Rainer Maria Rilke .
Textual Production Sylvia Beach
The speech urged all Americans to use their democratic rights to bring down corrupt politicians, because the President eats dirt and excrement for the daily meals, likes it, and tries to force it on the...
Textual Production Sylvia Beach
Though the essays were solicited and overseen by Joyce , SB did much of the editorial work and designed the cover.
Beach, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. Harcourt, Brace.
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Contributions included Samuel Beckett 's Dante . . . Bruno , Vico ...
Textual Production Marianne Moore
Despite the claim that this New York publication is a second edition of the earlier London one, it is more usefully considered as a different book. This time there was no pretence that MM was...
Textual Production Marianne Moore
White argues that Moore was essentially two separate poets, pre- and post-World War Two. She chooses to present the earlier one of the two, the poet whom Eliot , Stevens , Williams , and Bishop
Textual Features Carol Ann Duffy
Many poems here feature women answering back to canonical male voices: Liz Lochhead to Donne , Jenny Joseph to W. S. Gilbert , U. A. Fanthorpe to Walt Whitman , Wendy Cope to A. E. Housman
Textual Features Dora Marsden
A marked difference separating The New Freewoman from its predecessor was its increased literary content, at first secured mainly by Rebecca West . West recruited Ezra Pound to The New Freewoman after meeting him at...
Reception Dora Marsden
One of DM 's most appreciative readers was William Carlos Williams . Williams, who had written for The New Freewoman, was fascinated by Marsden's egoist philosophy and was especially attentive to her commentary on...
politics Nancy Cunard
NC 's anti-fascist political convictions are centrally motivating throughout her productive life. In 1946 she wrote to Ezra Pound : Your address was sent me by a person in England who had a letter from...
Occupation Ford Madox Ford
Ernest Hemingway was associate editor. The magazine published modernist writers including Djuna Barnes , Jean Rhys , Gertrude Stein , William Carlos Williams , Ezra Pound , and e. e. cummings .
Stang, Sondra J., editor. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Ford Madox Ford Reader, Carcanet, p. various pages.
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Literary responses Ezra Pound
William Carlos Williams felt that this work represented one of EP 's failures: Pound has sought to communicate his poetry to us and failed. It is a tragedy, since he is our best poet.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Literary responses Dorothy Richardson
Some of Richardson's readers considered that she, like Joyce , focused more than necessary on the seamier details of life. Reviewers were not altogether impressed by this novel. Reviewing Richardson again in the Athenæum in...
Intertextuality and Influence Jo Shapcott
This volume (with epigraph from William Carlos Williams ) includes more Mad Cow poems, together with a number of animal poems, like Pig, Hedgehog, Rhinoceros. JS 's intensely sensuous imagination issues in...
Intertextuality and Influence Ali Smith
The book's narrator is an unnamed, ungendered arborist in mourning for his or her unnamed, ungendered partner, a literary academic whose spectre lingers about the book both figuratively, in the form of unfinished lectures, and...
Intertextuality and Influence Denise Levertov
DL 's warm, rich correspondence with William Carlos Williams , an important influence on her work, was published by New Directions Press in 1998.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Her even fuller and richer correspondence with Robert Duncan (who was...

Timeline

December 1920: Contact, an American Quarterly Review began...

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December 1920

Contact, an American Quarterly Review began irregular publication in New York.

June 1923: Contact, an American Quarterly Review ceased...

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June 1923

Contact, an American Quarterly Review ceased publication in New York.

1931: US poet William Carlos Williams published...

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1931

US poet William Carlos Williams published his Collected Poems, with a preface by his fellow-poet Wallace Stevens .

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