Spring and All by William Carlos Williams
2015 Reprint of 1923 Edition. Full Facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. A practicing physician for more than 40 years, William Carlos Williams became an experimenter, innovator and revolutionary figure in American poetry. In reaction against the rigid, rhyming format of 19th-century poets, Williams, his friend Ezra Pound and other early-20th-century poets formed the core of what became known as the Imagist movement. Their poetry focused on verbal pictures and moments of revealed truth, rather than a structure of consecutive events or thoughts and was expressed in free verse rather than rhyme. The two most famous sections of Spring and All are poems I and XI. The former, which opens By the road to the contagious hospital, is commonly known by the title Spring and All, and the latter is generally known as The Red Wheelbarrow.
"So remarkable an influence upon the poetry of our time" -- Robert Creeley "It is ever more apparent that Williams was this century's major American poet."
Besides being a practicing physician, William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) was a poet, short-story writer, novelist, translator, playwright, and essayist whose contribution to the development of modern American poetry grew out of his commitment to recording the "local" experience of Rutherford, New Jersey, and its environs. C. D. Wright’s most recent poetry collection Rising, Falling, Hovering won the prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize. She is currently the Israel J. Kapstein Professor of English at Brown University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780811218917 |
| ISBN 10 | 0811218910 |
| Title | Spring and All |
| Author | William Carlos Williams |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
| Year published | 2011-07-26 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
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