“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
William Carlos Williams
Standard Name: Williams, William Carlos
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Harriet Shaw Weaver | As editor, HSW
attempted to recruit Storm Jameson
for the paper, but Jameson unhappily could not accept a full-time position. She also began to acquaint herself with contributors, such as H. D.
, whom she... |
Friends, Associates | Gertrude Stein | Over the years, the old crowd had begun to disperse and the Saturday evening salons were frequented more by writers and less by artists. Although GS
had published only a few volumes and had often... |
Education | Ali Smith | After completing her studies at Aberdeen, Smith began working towards a doctorate at Newnham College, Cambridge (still a women-only body). Continuing her work on the area of her MLitt, she determined to focus on the... |
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 | 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... |
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... |
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. |
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 | |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Denise Levertov | In the USA, DL
soon became friends with Robert Creeley
and Kenneth Rexroth
. From October 1951 she corresponded with William Carlos Williams
, to whom she remained close until the end of his life... |
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
. |
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. |
Friends, Associates | H. D. | In Chicago on her US visit of 1920-1, HD met with Harriet Monroe
. In New York she renewed her acquaintance with friends from her early days in Pennsylvania: Marianne Moore
and William Carlos Williams |
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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